We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
The problem of finding clusters in data is challenging when clusters are of widely differing sizes, densities and shapes, and when the data contains large amounts of noise and out...
We consider the issue of representing coalitional games in multiagent systems that exhibit externalities from coalition formation, i.e., systems in which the gain from forming a c...
Tomasz P. Michalak, Dorota Marciniak, Marcin Szamo...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...