Abstract. Modern distributed computing demands unprecedented levels of dynamicity and reconfiguration. Mobile computing, peer-to-peer networks, computational grids, multiagent sys...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
Evaluating novel networked protocols and services requires subjecting the target system to realistic Internet conditions. However, there is no common understanding of what is requ...
In autonomous agent systems, memory is an important element to handle agent behaviors appropriately. We present the analysis of memory requirements for robotic tasks including wal...