This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Several scalable media codecs have been standardized in recent years to cope with heterogeneous usage conditions and to aim at always providing audio, video and image content in t...
Mobile phones, with their increasing processing power and memory, are enabling a diversity of tasks. The traditional text entry method using keypad is falling short in numerous way...
Santosh Basapur, Shuang Xu, Mark Ahlenius, Young S...
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Clinical databases store large amounts of information about patients and their medical conditions. Data mining techniques can extract relationships and patterns holding in this we...
Michele Berlingerio, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giann...