The two main techniques of improving I/O performance of Object Oriented Database Management Systems(OODBMS) are clustering and buffer replacement. Clustering is the placement of o...
Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed ...
This paper is on the construction of a server subsystem in a client/server system in an application context where the number of potential clients can be arbitrarily large. The imp...
It is useful for an intelligent software agent to be able to adapt to new demands from an environment. Such adaptation can be viewed as a redesign problem; an agent has some origin...
An increasing number of computer vision applications require on-line processing of data streams, preferably in real-time. This trend is fueled by the mainstream availability of low...