Generally, applications employing Database Management Systems (DBMS) require that the integrity of the data stored in the database be preserved during normal operation as well as ...
Type-and-effect systems are a natural approach for statically reasoning about a program’s execution. They have been used to track a variety of computational effects, for example...
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...
In designing dynamic situations such as cyberworlds, we the Incrementally Modular Abstraction Hierarchy (IMAH) to be an appropriate mathematical background to model dynamically ch...
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...