Resource allocation in ad hoc communication networks is a field of high complexity because of both i) the distributed nature of the interactions between the nodes, and ii) the lar...
Alex Fridman, Daniel Hennessey, David Breen, Steve...
To realize the Semantic Web, it will be necessary to make existing database content available for emerging Semantic Web applications, such as web agents and services, which use on...
Dejing Dou, Paea LePendu, Shiwoong Kim, Peishen Qi
Recent interest in the use of software character agents raises the issue of how many agents should be used in online learning. In this paper we review evidence concerning the rela...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
In the present paper, we examine the problem of supporting application-specific computation within a network file server. Our objectives are (i) to introduce an easy to use yet ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...