The rational agent community uses Michael Bratman's planning theory of intention as its theoretical foundation for the development of its agentoriented BDI languages. We prese...
Abstract— ACG (Adjacent Constraint Graph) is a general floorplan representation. The refinement of constraint graphs gives not only an efficient representation but also a repre...
This paper details a true and striking paradigm shift: the use of E-Prime for (at least) user-centered security, organizational/enterprise security policies and informal security ...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...