Matchmaking will be an important component of future agent and agent-like systems, such as the semantic web. Most research on matchmaking has been directed toward sophisticated ma...
There is a growing need for a theory of “local to global” in distributed multi-agent systems, one which is able systematically to describe and analyze a variety of problems. T...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
Most information systems log events (e.g., transaction logs, audit trails) to audit and monitor the processes they support. At the same time, many of these processes have been expl...
This paper shows a scheme for incremental evaluation of XPath queries. Here, we focus on a monotone fragment of XPath, i.e., when a data is deleted from (or inserted to) the datab...