The present paper introduces a belief merging procedure by majority using the standard format of Adaptive Logics. The core structure of the logic ADMc (Adaptive Doxastic Merging by...
This paper presents an innovative strategy to synchronize all virtual clocks in asynchronous Internet environments. Our model is based on the architecture of one reference clock a...
Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
In this paper we address the question of assigning social norms to agents: should we attempt to ascribe social norms to agents that will act in complex dynamic environments, or is...
This paper presents a novel block-based segmentation and adaptive coding(BSAC) algorithm for visually lossless compression of scanned documents that contain not only photographic ...