Distributed constraint satisfaction, in its most general acceptation, involves a collection of agents solving local constraint satisfaction subproblems, and a communication protoco...
Distribution of product updates to embedded devices can increase product lifetimes for consumers and boost revenues for vendors. Dynamic provisioning of application solutions to e...
What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on ...
In this paper we propose a general framework for local pathplanning and steering that can be easily extended to perform highlevel behaviors. Our framework is based on the concept ...
Mubbasir Kapadia, Shawn Singh, William Hewlett, Pe...
As the use of virtualization and partitioning grows, it becomes possible to deploy a multi-tier web-based application with a variable amount of computing power. This introduces th...