Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
This paper proposes the use of an autonomous exploring agent to generate and annotate the waypoint graph as an offline process during level development. The explorer incrementally...
This work presents the core ideas for an approach that enables index tuning with no human intervention at all. SQL statements submitted to the database are monitored and indices a...
We describe how a physical robot can learn about objects from its own autonomous experience in the continuous world. The robot identifies statistical regularities that allow it t...