Abstract During its development computer science has more and more established a way it sees itself. However, in recent years the rise of distributed systems and object orientation...
Conventions are necessary to establish in any recurrent cooperative arrangement. In electronic work, they are important so as to regulate the use of shared objects. Based on empir...
In design, problem analysis is as important as solution synthesis. Strategic knowledge is required not only for constructing a solution but also for framing a problem. While exter...
We study four scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature th...
Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain which involves multiple agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specificobjectives. In this paper...