Abstract. The notion of agents has provided a way of imbuing traditional computing systems with an extra degree of flexibility that allows them to be more resilient and robust in t...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
Many design models and representations have been proposed to support user-centered system design, such as scenarios, use cases, and prototypes. With these artifacts, designers typ...
The performance of host communication subsystems is an important research topic in computer networks.1 Performance metrics such as throughput, delay, and packet loss are important...
There has usually been a clean separation between networks and the applications that use them. Applications send packets over a simple socket API; the network delivers them. Howev...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Te-Yuan Huang, Ben Dodson, Monica S...