This paper presents a programming language for parallel computing based on code annotations. It has similar goals and philosophy as OpenMP but it is more tightly coupled to the ob...
In this paper we describe our experiments in finding answers from documents based on statistical and linguistic knowledge. We collected the candidate answers from sources available...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the mechanisms needed for Byzantine fault tolerant coordination of Web services atomic transactions. The mechanisms have been incorporated into ...
Among the many works on trust negotiation, only a few deal with negotiation strategies. These works are tailored to specific frameworks—so their results cannot be extended to c...
A new system named Sixth-Sense is proposed for obtaining physical world information in smart space. Our view is object-centered and sensors are attached to several objects in the ...