On-time data management is becoming a key difficulty faced by the information infrastructure of most organizations. In fact, database applications for critical areas are increasing...
Abstract— We consider a multi-class queueing system operating under the Discriminatory Processor-Sharing (DPS) discipline. The DPS discipline provides a natural approach for mode...
Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind c...
Pervasive and ad hoc computing applications are frequently deployed in dynamic networks. Due to mobility of the computing nodes, their unreliability, or a limited communication ra...
This paper extends the model theory of RDF with rules, placing an emphasis on integration with OWL and decidability of entailstart from an abstract syntax that views a rule as a pa...