Agents in an open system interact with each other based on (typically, published) protocols. An agent may, however, deviate from the protocol because of its internal policies. Such...
Engineering diagnosis often involves analyzing complex records of system states printed to large, textual log files. Typically the logs are designed to accommodate the widest debug...
Moving range queries over mobile objects are important in many location management applications. There have been quite a few research works in this area. However, all existing solu...
Through legislation and technology the film industry has been seeking to fully control usage of the bits it creates; their model is "restrictive" digital-rights manageme...
Abstract. This paper describes a new way of implementing an intelligent web caching service, based on an analysis of usage. Since the cache size in software is limited, and the sea...