Modern distributed information systems handle increasingly critical data and computation, but there is no systematic way to assess whether a given part of the system can be entrus...
Partha Pratim Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atighe...
Abstract. We present an approach to coordinate the behavior of a multiagent team using an HTN planning procedure. To coordinate teams, high level tasks have to be broken down into ...
Optimistic replication of data is a widely used tool for mobile environments, but the behavior of concurrent conflicting updates caused by the relaxed consistency model is poorly ...
An-I Wang, Peter L. Reiher, Rajive Bagrodia, Geoff...
Recently, a new approach that involves a form of simulated evolution has been proposed for the building of autonomous robots. However, it is still not clear if this approach may b...
In the last few years, the call center industry has considerably grown especially the outbound call center area, such as telemarketing. The productivity of the call centers has si...
Paulo J. de Freitas Filho, Geovani Ferreira da Cru...