Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Different approaches have been proposed over the years for automatically transforming High-Level-Languages (HLL) descriptions of applications into custom hardware implementations. ...
Simulation models are useful to predict and understand the impact of changes to a manufacturing system. Typical factory simulation models include the parts being manufactured in t...
Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Brian F. Conaghan, Laurent He...
There is increasing interest in using general-purpose operating systems, such as Linux, on embedded platforms. It is especially important in embedded systems to use memory effici...
The creation of a generic and modular query optimization and processing infrastructure can provide significant benefits to XML data management. Key pieces of such an infrastructur...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...