Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...
—A user’s focus of attention plays an important role in human–computer interaction applications, such as a ubiquitous computing environment and intelligent space, where the u...
A database system contains base data items which record and model a physical, real world environment. For better decision support, base data items are summarized and correlated to...
This paper attempts to address the complexity of system administration by making the labor of applying software updates independent of the number of computers on which the softwar...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, David Brumley, Ramesh ...
Increasingly, high-assurance applications rely on autonomic systems to respond to changes in their environment. The inherent uncertainty present in the environment of autonomic sy...