Despite the immense potential of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks in facilitating collaborative applications, they have become largely known as a free haven for pirated music swapping....
The monitoring and control of any dynamic system depends crucially on the ability to reason about its current status and its future trajectory. In the case of a stochastic system,...
On-line decision making often involves query processing over time-varying data which arrives in the form of data streams from distributed locations. In such environments typically...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Real organisms live in a world full of uncertain situations and have evolved cognitive mechanisms to cope with problems based on actions and perceptions which are not always reliab...