This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
The model of moldable task (MT) was introduced some years ago and has been proved to be an efficient way for implementing parallel applications. It considers a target application ...
The enormous potential for wireless sensor networks to make a positive impact on our society has spawned a great deal of research on the topic, and this research is now producing ...
Pei Zhang, Christopher M. Sadler, Stephen A. Lyon,...
Informally, an obfuscator O is an efficient, probabilistic “compiler” that transforms a program P into a new program O(P) with the same functionality as P, but such that O(P)...