A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms has recently evolved for describing concurrent and distributed computations based on the concept of “coordination”. The purpos...
A computer program that uses AI planning techniques is now the world’s best program for the game of contract bridge. As reported in The New York Times and The Washington Post, t...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop
Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain which involves multiple agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specificobjectives. In this paper...
Many types of applications can benefit from flexible and open middleware. CORBA is an emerging middleware standard for Object Request Brokers (ORBs) that simplifies the developmen...
Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, Chris Clevela...
The Voltan software library for building distributed applications provides the support for (i) a processpair to act as single Voltan self-checking ‘fail-silent’ process; and (...