Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
Agents programmed in BDI-inspired languages have goals to achieve and a library of plans that can be used to achieve them, typically requiring further goals to be adopted. This is...
Patricia H. Shaw, Berndt Farwer, Rafael H. Bordini
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...
In this paper we introduce the language Golog+HTNT I for specifying control using procedural and HTN-based constructs together with deadlines and time restrictions. Our language s...
This paper describes the integration of the Personal Software Process (PSP) into an introductory database course in an MIS curriculum. PSP is a highly disciplined, process-based a...