Programming languages based on the BDI style of agent model are now common. Within these there appears to be some, limited, agreement on the core functionality of agents. However, ...
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
—Controlled mobile helper nodes called data ferries have recently been proposed to bridge communications between disconnected nodes in a delay-tolerant manner. While existing wor...
Chi Harold Liu, Ting He, Kang-won Lee, Kin K. Leun...
A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository that integrates data from multiple sources and organizes the data according to a set of data structures called dimensions. Each dimension...
Execution and communication traces are central to performance modeling and analysis. Since the traces can be very long, meaningful compression and extraction of representative beha...