Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Abstract— An ontology is a formal language adequately representing the knowledge used for reasoning in a specific environment. When contradictions arise and make ontologies inad...
We present a framework for validating the compliance of a design with a given architecture. Our approach is centered on the concept of misinterpretations. These include missing be...
Although informative, the semantic definition proposed for the most standard agent communication language (FIPA ACL 1997) is complicated and contentious, while published interact...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham, Nicholas R. ...
The identification and management of work dependencies is a fundamental challenge in software development organizations. This paper argues that modularization, the traditional tec...
Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb, Kathleen M. Ca...