We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
Distributed real-time systems play a very important role in our modern society. They are used in aircraft control, communication systems, military command and control systems, fac...
Abstract— In this survey we take a look at different approaches proposed in the literature for addressing the privacy and security issues derived from the Radio-Frequency IDenti...
Even though evolutionary algorithms have been applied to a vast number of problems, they are still not always applicable. As an example, this paper briefly discusses smart applianc...
Grid technologies have enabled the aggregation of geographically distributed resources, in the context of a particular application. The network remains an important requirement for...