Abstract. Interaction protocols are a popular means to construct correct component-based systems. Aspects that modify such protocols are interesting in this context because they su...
One of the outcomes of DARPA’s HPCS program has been the creation of three new high productivity languages: Chapel, Fortress, and X10. While these languages have introduced impro...
We present a new language feature, specified as an extension to Java. The feature is a form of dispatch which includes and subsumes multimethods (see for example [3]), but which ...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...