The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design. This method was developed to provi...
Rick Kazman, Mark H. Klein, Mario Barbacci, Thomas...
We extend a torus-based coterie structure for distributed mutual exclusion to allow k multiple entries in a critical section. In the original coterie, the system nodes are logical...
In this overview we show how Knowledge Representation (KR) can be done with the help of generalized logic programs. We start by introducing the core of PROLOG, which is based on de...
A for-loop is somewhat similar to an inductive argument. Just as the truth of a proposition P(n + 1) depends on the truth of P(n), the correctness of iteration n+1 of a for-loop de...