The paper presents the computational model underlying new agent communication languages. The model, called STROBE, has been identified and two prototypical languages inspired by th...
Scheduling jobs on the IBM SP2 system is usually done by giving each job a partition of the machine for its exclusive use. Allocating such partitions in the order that the jobs ar...
Wayfinding is a basic activity people do throughout their entire lives as they navigate from one place to another. In order to create different spaces in such a way that they facil...
Martin Raubal, Max J. Egenhofer, Dieter Pfoser, Ne...
The performance of current transaction processing systems largely depends on human experts for administration and tuning. These experts have to specify a multitude of internal con...
Data warehouses and recording systems typically have a large continuous stream of incoming data, that must be stored in a manner suitable for future access. Access to stored recor...
H. V. Jagadish, P. P. S. Narayan, S. Seshadri, S. ...