In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agen...
d at a high abstraction level, and consists in an expectation-driven search starting from symbolic object descriptions and using a version of a distributed blackboard system for re...
Gian Luca Foresti, Vittorio Murino, Carlo S. Regaz...
: There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This pa...
Protein domains are subunits of proteins that recur throughout the protein world. There are many definitions attempting to capture the essence of a protein domain, and several sys...
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...