The imprecise computation model provides the ability to cope with unpredictable workloads. However, there is no consistent way on how to terminate the computation in its early sta...
We present a dynamic programming approach for the solution of first-order Markov decisions processes. This technique uses an MDP whose dynamics is represented in a variant of the ...
This paper presents the design and performance of remote disk drivers for clusters of Commodity-Off-The-Shelf PCs that fetch disk blocks over System Area Networks. The driver offe...
Ensuring that specifications are consistent is an important part of specification development and testing. In this paper we introduce the ConsVISor tool for consistency checking o...
Kenneth Baclawski, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Jeffrey E....
After brie y reviewing the basic notions and terminology of active rules and relating them to production rules and deductive rules, respectively, we survey a number of formal appro...