Abstract. The knowledge representation tradition in computational lexicon design represents words as static encapsulations of purely lexical knowledge. We suggest that this view po...
Database partitioning is a technique for improving the performance of distributed OLTP databases, since “single partition” transactions that access data on one partition do no...
—The support of distributed atomic transactions in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) is a key requirement for many mobile application scenarios. Atomicity is a fundamental property ...
It is useful for an intelligent software agent to be able to adapt to new demands from an environment. Such adaptation can be viewed as a redesign problem; an agent has some origin...
The rapid development of Internet has resulted in more and more multimedia in Web content. However, due to the limitation in the bandwidth and huge size of the multimedia data, us...