More and more personal data is exposed to automatic and programmatic access, making it more difficult to safeguard the personal information from unauthorised access at every step. ...
Bounded parameter Markov Decision Processes (BMDPs) address the issue of dealing with uncertainty in the parameters of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Unlike the case of an MDP, t...
Algorithmic skeletons can be used to write architecture independent programs, shielding application developers from the details of a parallel implementation. In this paper, we pre...
With the growing adoption of service-oriented computing, locating services becomes increasingly commonplace. Accordingly, a large number of systems for service discovery have been ...
Java's remote method invocation mechanism provides a number of features that extend the functionality of traditional client server-based distributed systems. However, there a...