The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
We address the problem of Bayesian image reconstruction with a prior that captures the notion of a clustered intensity histogram. The problem is formulated in the framework of a j...
We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of p...
— We consider perfect secret key generation for a “pairwise independent network” model in which every pair of terminals share a random binary string, with the strings shared ...
Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...