This paper provides a logical framework of negotiating agents who have capabilities of evaluating and building proposals. Given a proposal, an agent decides whether it is acceptabl...
A dependence model for reverse engineering should treat procedures in a modular fashion and should be fine-grained, distinguishing dependences that are due to different variables....
We examine the sequence of local minimizers of the log-barrier function for a nonlinear program near a solution at which second-order sufficient conditions and the Mangasarian-From...
A facility with front room and back room operations has the option of hiring specialized or, more expensive, cross-trained workers. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and servic...
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck, Kenneth N. Br...
During the life cycle of an XML application, both schemas and queries may change from one version to another. Schema evolutions may affect query results and potentially the validi...