Abstract. In this paper we introduce the concept of knowledge granularity and study its influence on an agent's action selection process. Action selection is critical to an ag...
The CARMA-NTG protocol is presented and analyzed. CARMA-NTG dynamically divides the channel into cycles of variable length; each cycle consists of a contention period and a group-...
The design of secure buffer managers for database systems supporting real-time applications with firm deadlines is studied here. We first identify the design challenges and then p...
We introduce dag consistency, a relaxed consistency model for distributed shared memory which is suitable for multithreaded programming. We have implemented dag consistency in sof...
Robert D. Blumofe, Matteo Frigo, Christopher F. Jo...
We provide a reconstruction of Blum and Furst’s Graphplan algorithm, and use the reconstruction to extend and improve the original algorithm in several ways. In our reconstructi...