Meta-heuristics such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and tabu search have been successfully applied to many difficult optimization problems for which no satisfactory pro...
The issues surrounding the question of atomicity, both in the past and nowadays, are briefly reviewed, and a picture of an ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) transactio...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Anthony Hall, Susan...
This paper addresses an important question in the development of multi-agent systems—how can we create robust systems out of the often unreliable agents and infrastructures we ca...
Information retrieval is an important problem in any evidence-based discipline. Although Evidencebased Software Engineering (EBSE) is not immune to this fact, this question has no...
This paper focuses on the foundational role of interactive epistemology in the problem of generating plans for rational agents in multiagent settings. Interactive epistemology dea...