The emphasis in microprocessor design has shifted from high performance, to a combination of high performance and low power. Until recently, this trend was mostly true for uniproc...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is currently undergoing an intensive review into the way patient care is designed, delivered and recorded. One important element of this is the...
Kirsty Bradbrook, Graham Winstanley, David Glasspo...
This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
We consider a class of component-based software models with interaction style of buffered asynchronous message passing between components with ports, represented by UML-RT. After ...