Autonomy has always been conceived as one of the defining attributes of intelligent agents. While the past years have seen considerable progress regarding theoretical aspects of a...
The role of the operating system (OS) in managing shared resources such as CPU time, memory, peripherals, and even energy is well motivated and understood [23]. Unfortunately, one...
Digital libraries (DLs) have become a major focus of information technology resources for organizations from academia, to the US Department of Defense to the archeological efforts...
Eric L. Brown, Luis G. Velazco, G. Kirksey, S. Ram...
The increasing complexity of clinical trials has generated an enormous requirement for knowledge and information specification at all stages of the trials, including planning, doc...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
Abstract. For the application of large-scale mobile agents in a distributed environment, where a large number of computers are connected together to enable the large-scale sharing ...