Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Abstract. Class extensions provide a fine-grained mechanism to define incremental modifications to class-based systems when standard subclassing mechanisms are inappropriate. To...
Multi-agent systems are now being considered a promising architectural approach for building Internet-based applications. One of the most critical and important aspects of softwar...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
Robotics is a challenging domain that exhibits a clear need for self-adaptive capabilities, as self-adaptation offers the potential for robots to account for their unstable and unp...