Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
This paper introduces Pact, a new model for parallel heuristic programming on MIMD machines. Designed and implemented as an integrated tool environment, Pact allows the user to dev...
Failure detection is a difficult and often expensive task. The principle of self-healing addresses this cost issue, but poses new research questions. This work focuses on detectin...
— Agents are being recommended as a next generation model for revising and restructuring the complex distributed applications. So the task of engineering quality for agent system...