This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
The core goal of resource management is to establish a mutual agreement between a resource producer and a resource consumer by which the provider agrees to supply a capability tha...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, Koen Bertels, G. M. Kandru, S...
— Event processing systems link event producers and consumers in a flexible manner, by supporting multiple communication patterns and powerful message transformations. Such syst...
Sumeer Bhola, Mark Astley, Robert Saccone, Michael...
— Over the past decade, wide-area distributed computing has emerged as a powerful computing paradigm. Virtual machines greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing ing the ab...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange,...
A pervasive virtual instructor is an artificially intelligent instructor that may appear transparent to the learner or appear in the form of a threedimensional graphical character...