DICE (DIstributed Constraint Environment) is a framework for the construction of distributed constraint solvers from software components in a number of predefined categories. The...
We present the universe model,a new approach to concurrencymanagement that isolates concurrency concerns and represents them in the modular interface of a component. This approach...
Software designers compose systems from components written in some prolanguage. They regularly describe systems using abstract patterns and sophisticated relations among component...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
This paper introduces a system for categorizing unknown words. The system is based on a multicomponent architecture where each component is responsible for identifying one class o...