A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
This paper proposes a new multiagent planning approach to coordination synthesis that views distributed agents as discrete-event processes. The connection between discreteevent co...
Abstract. This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a practical region-based partial dead code elimination (PDE) algorithm on predicated code in...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
In a course environment, pairing a student with one partner for the entire semester is beneficial, but may not be optimal. The authors conducted a study in two undergraduate level...
Hema Srikanth, Laurie A. Williams, Eric Wiebe, Car...