This paper discusses some modeling issues concerning the communication between goal-directed agents. In particular, the role of performatives in agent communication is discussed. I...
Over the last fifteen years, database management systems (DBMSs) have been enhanced by the addition of rule-based programming to obtain active DBMSs. One of the greatest challeng...
High-level control of parallel process behaviour simplifies the development of parallel software substantially by freeing the programmer from low-level process management and coor...
Abstract. Machine functions have been introduced by Earley and Sturgis in [6] in order to provide a mathematical foundation of the use of the T-diagrams proposed by Bratman in [5]....
By adapting to computations that are not so well supported by general-purpose processors, reconfigurable systems achieve significant increases in performance. Such computational sy...