Recent research in e-contracts is concerned with the development of frameworks and tools to support contracts. EREC framework is one that enables modelling and deployment of e-con...
Anushree Khandekar, P. Radha Krishna, Kamalakar Ka...
We have developed a model-based, distributed architecture that integrates diverse components in a system designed for lunar and planetary surface operations: an astronaut’s spac...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Charis Kaski...
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...
Speculative Multi-Threading (SpMT) can improve single-threaded application performance using the multiple thread contexts available in current processors. We propose a minimal SpM...
Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Haitham Akkary, Tom Holman...