Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Temporal projection-predicting future states of a changing world-has been studied mainly as a formal problem. Researchers have been concerned with getting the concepts of causalit...
Besides ordinary applications, also infrastructure software such as operating systems or database management systems is being developed as a software product line. With proper too...
Recent convergence between low-cost technology, artform and political discourse presents a new design space for enabling public participation and expression. We explore non-expert...