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MAAMAW
1994
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Towards a Theory of Cooperative Problem Solving
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...
Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings
ECIS
2000
15 years 1 months ago
Towards a Grounded Theory of Information Systems for the International Firm: Critical Variables and Causal Networks
-International Information Systems, often of critical importance for the operations of the multinational enterprise, are poorly researches and there is a dearth of theoretical fram...
Hans P. Lehmann
CORR
2004
Springer
82views Education» more  CORR 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Towards a Mathematical Theory of the Delays of the Asynchronous Circuits
The inequations of the delays of the asynchronous circuits are written, by making use of pseudo-Boolean differential calculus. We consider these efforts to be a possible starting p...
Serban E. Vlad
TPDS
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
PODS
2008
ACM
152views Database» more  PODS 2008»
15 years 12 months ago
Towards a theory of schema-mapping optimization
A schema mapping is a high-level specification that describes the relationship between two database schemas. As schema mappings constitute the essential building blocks of data ex...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alan Nash, Luci...