We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...
In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
The notion of ThisType has been proposed to promote typesafe reuse of binary methods and recently extended to mutually recursive definitions. It is well-known, however, that This...
The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
We introduce the idea of optimisation validation, which is to formally establish that an instance of an optimising transformation indeed improves with respect to some resource mea...
David Aspinall, Lennart Beringer, Alberto Momiglia...