The synchronous programming paradigm simplifies the specification and verification of reactive systems. However, synchronous programs must be often implemented on architectures...
Many Ubicomp appliances require the recognition of context. Existing context systems do not provide information about the quality of the context recognizied to the appliance at ru...
Martin Berchtold, Christian Decker, Till Riedel, T...
Large-scale distributed systems, such as ubiquitous computing environments, require a service delivery mechanism in order to keep track of the vast set of services offered and mak...
Maria Riaz, Saad Liaquat Kiani, Sungyoung Lee, San...
In this paper, we propose a multi-agent approach for solving a class of optimization problems involving expensive resources, where monolithic local search schemes perform miserabl...
Electronic commerce technology offers the opportunity to integrate and optimize the global production and distribution on supply chain. Computers of various corporations, located t...