It is necessary to have the precise definition of available performance of high availability systems that can represent the availability and performability of the systems altogethe...
This paper presents Networks of Influence Diagrams (NID), a compact, natural and highly expressive language for reasoning about agents' beliefs and decision-making processes....
The process of understanding a source code in a high-level programming language involves complex computation. Given a piece of legacy code and a library of program plan templates, ...
This paper is concerned with a new task of ranking, referred to as "supplementary data assisted ranking", or "supplementary ranking" for short. Different from c...
Abstract. Data centric languages, such as recursive rule based languages, have been proposed to program distributed applications over networks. They simplify greatly the code, whic...