We report a study to determine the impact of four types of disturbances on the failure intensity of a software product undergoing system test. Hardware failures, discovery of a cr...
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal se...
Handling parallelism in database systems involves the specification of a storage model, a placement strategy, and a query processing strategy. An important goal is to determine th...
Setrag Khoshafian, George P. Copeland, Thomas Jago...
Dial-a-Ride systems involve dispatching a vehicle to satisfy demands from a set of customers who call a vehicle operating agency requesting that an item be picked up from a specif...
We present a grand challenge to build a corpus that will include all of the world's languages, in a consistent structure that permits large-scale cross-linguistic processing,...