Abstract. The management of user preferences is becoming a fundamental ingredient of modern Web-based data-intensive applications, in which information filtering is crucial to red...
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
The parametric data model captures an object in terms of a single tuple. This feature eliminates unnecessary self-join operations to combine tuples scattered in a temporal relatio...
Abstract. Several options are available to relate agent logics to computational agent systems. Among others, one can try to find useful executable fragments of an agent logic or us...
: Narrowing the wide conceptual gap between problem and implementation domains is considered a significant factor within software engineering. Currently, such a relation is often o...