Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...
: The experience from years of development and use, the advance of technology, and the development of authoring tools for questions and tests has resulted in a sophisticated, compu...
Antonella Carbonaro, Giorgio Casadei, Simone Riccu...
This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...
Scientists in astrophysics and cosmology make much use of the arXiv repository. Concerns raised by scientists in those fields about publication costs and delays, and the transparen...
Decision making based on the comparison of multiple criteria of two or more alternatives, is the subject of intensive research. In many decision making situations, a single criter...
Alfons Schuster, Werner Dubitzky, Philippe Lopes, ...