icians or philosophers use abstract symbols to derive formulas or form proofs. Indeed, these sketches are structural geometric proofs, consistent with Plato's supposition that...
In electronic marketplaces populated by self-interested agents, buyer agents would benefit by modeling the reputation of seller agents, in order to make effective decisions abou...
Software process improvement (SPI) has emerged as a critical area for organizations involved in software development. There is now considerable evidence that SPI can provide subst...
This paper examines simultaneous multithreading, a technique permitting several independent threads to issue instructions to a superscalar's multiple functional units in a si...
A research organization responds to a variety of customer requests. Each high level request is broken down into a set of low level requests. For each low level request, the resear...