With the growing usage of the world-wide ICT networks, agent technologies and multiagent systems are attracting more and more attention, as they perform well in environments that a...
Abstract. This paper provides an overview of Proof-Based System Engineering (PBSE), which aims at improving the current practice of developing computer-based systems. PBSE is of pa...
In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in (automatic) drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative effe...
In this paper, a method of handling both access frequency skew and data amount skew on a distributed parallel storage system under version management system is discussed. We assum...
Mana Nakano, Dai Kobayashi, Akitsugu Watanabe, Tos...
We propose a novel structure, the data-sharing graph, for characterizing sharing patterns in large-scale data distribution systems. We analyze this structure in two such systems a...