A contention-sensitive data structure is a concurrent data structure in which the overhead introduced by locking is eliminated in the common cases, when there is no contention, or ...
RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end s...
We present results of a case study looking at how domain knowledge is communicated to developers using executable acceptance test driven development at a large software development...
The Agile Manifesto values “customer collaboration over contract negotiation”. However, in many real projects, Agile practitioners spend considerable time and effort negotiati...
This paper introduces a multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm that converges with a given accuracy to stationary Nash equilibria in general-sum discounted stochastic games. ...