Abstract Although e-commerce is becoming popular, product rules, which describe various conditions such as prices, applicability, and discount conditions are still expressed in nat...
This paper presents market-based macroprogramming (MBM), a new paradigm for achieving globally efficient behavior in sensor networks. Rather than programming the individual, low-...
Abstract— Third party developed software add-ins enhance the functionality of a large variety of base software such as operating systems, word processors, spread sheets, graphics...
: Since Keynes (1930) and Hicks (1939) propounded their theory of normal backwardation, the issue of whether hedgers must pay speculators an insurance premium has remained controve...
—As transistor feature sizes continue to shrink into the sub-90nm range and beyond, the effects of process variations on critical path delay and chip yields have amplified. A com...