An important factor in the successful deployment of federated web-services-based business activities will be the ability to guarantee reliable distributed operation and execution....
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Provable security usually makes the assumption that a source of perfectly random and secret data is available. However, in practical applications, and especially when smart cards a...
Pierre-Alain Fouque, Nick Howgrave-Graham, Gwena&e...
This paper focuses on a task allocation problem, particularly in cases where the task is to find a solution to a search problem or a constraint satisfaction problem. If the searc...
The effectiveness of simulation-based training for individual tasks – such as piloting skills – is well established, but its use for team training raises challenging technical...
David R. Traum, Jeff Rickel, Jonathan Gratch, Stac...