Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and sys...
Which agent architectures are capable of justifying descriptions in terms of the `higher level' mental concepts applicable to human beings? We propose a new kind of architect...
Component-based software engineering attempts to address the ever increasing demand for new software applications by enabling a compositional approach to software construction in ...
In this paper we consider the functionality that a rights expression language (REL) should provide within a digital rights management (DRM) environment. We begin by noting the dea...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman, Iv&aacu...
We describe the design and implementation of a high performance cloud that we have used to archive, analyze and mine large distributed data sets. By a cloud, we mean an infrastruc...