Autonomous agents working in multi-agent environments may need to cooperate in order to ful ll tasks. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consi...
: Parametric design is an important modeling paradigm in computer aided design. Relationships (constraints) between the degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the model, instead of the DOFs ...
This paper attempts to de ne an object-oriented database system. It describes the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an objectoriented databas...
The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...