In the environment of wide-area networks such as the Internet, distributed query processing becomes problematic due to the changing coming from both underlying networks and user...
A well designed cooperation strategy for a task oriented multi-agent team is important as it can improve performance. A challenging research issue in cooperation concerns the exten...
Within industrial contexts, a common view of the level of confidence needed in CAD data transfer processes may be expressed as “1 don’t mind if the [CAD data- tmnsfer] algorit...
Thomas J. Peters, Neil F. Stewart, David R. Fergus...
As parallel and distributed computers become more widely available and used, the already important process of understanding and debugging concurrent programs will take on even gre...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...