Data fragmentation offers various attractive alternatives to organizing and managing data, and presents interesting characteristics that may be exploited for efficient processing...
When arriving to Hong Kong from China, the first difficulty of the new arrival women of the grassroots class is usually environmental stress. Their socio-economic situations often...
Societies need patterned behavior to exist. Large-scale agent societies may contain a diversity of agents, each with differing abilities and functionalities. When such an agent sys...
In this paper we will examine two main aspects of trust dynamics: a) How direct experiences involving trust, with their successes or failures, influence the future trust of an age...
ng Abstractions for Local Search Pascal Van Hentenryck1 and Laurent Michel2 1 Brown University, Box 1910, Providence, RI 02912 2 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3155 Ab...