The usefulness of design patterns in forward engineering is already well-known and several tools provide support for their application in the development of software systems. Whil...
Decentralized MDPs provide a powerful formal framework for planning in multi-agent systems, but the complexity of the model limits its usefulness. We study in this paper a class o...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
Abstract Spatio-temporal extensions to data models have been an active area of research for a number of years. To date, much of this work has focused on the relational data model, ...
Tony Griffiths, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
Given their simple nature, the success of keyword based retrieval systems is astonishing. Although these methods seemingly only process words (and their word counts), they rely on...
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...