The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Abstract. Aspect-orientation provides support for " Separation of Concerns" by means of techniques that first isolate and then weave concerns. Most work in aspect-orienta...
A general and expressive model of sequential decision making under uncertainty is provided by the Markov decision processes (MDPs) framework. Complex applications with very large ...
We investigate factors that impact the effectiveness of caching to speed up discrete event simulation. Walsh and Sirer have shown that a variant of function caching (staged simula...
High availability (HA) computing has recently gained much attention, especially in enterprise and mission critical systems. The HA is now a necessity that is no longer regarded as...