Although numbers of software pattern catalogues and languages have been published, little is known about quality of patterns, quality by patterns and quality aspects of pattern ac...
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...
We propose an object-oriented framework for one of the most frequent and costly operations in parallel database systems: the parallel join. The framework independently captures a ...
The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
In moving object databases, existing disk-based indexes are unable to keep up with the high update rate while providing speedy retrieval at the same time. However, efficient manage...