This paper describes a protocol language which can provide agents with a flexible mechanism for coherent dialogues. The protocol language does not rely on centralised control or ...
In this paper, we treat the turbo decoding algorithm as a dynamical system parameterized by the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). A whole range of nonlinear phenomena, including chaos ...
Abstract. In order to explore the social organization of a medieval peasant community before the Hundred Years’ War, we propose the use of an adaptation of the well-known Kohonen...
Abstract--In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimizing the lifetime of a mobile ad hoc network at a given degree k of connectivity by minimizing power consumption. Our p...
In the research-in-progress reported here, we adapted the classic Mason and Mitroff characterization of an information system to a web environment. The resulting definition was us...