Abstract. Open systems are becoming increasingly important in a variety of distributed, networked computer applications. Their characteristics, such as agent diversity, heterogenei...
This paper presents a sequential two-stage strategy for the stochastic synthesis of chemical processes in which flexibility and ability to adjust manipulated variables are taken i...
Electronic mail is an unquestionably vital component of the Internet infrastructure. While the general perception of email is that it "just works," surprisingly little d...
The past decade has seen communication revolution in the form of cellular telephony as well as the Internet, but much of it has been restricted to the developed world and metro po...
The growth of ubiquitous computing has given rise to a range of possibilities for context-based application development. Technologies for mobile computing and context-awareness can...