To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors...
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mik...
We propose a transaction model that provides a framework for transactions to cooperate without sacrificing serializability as a notion of correctness. Cooperation does not depend ...
Object invariants describe the consistency of object states, and are crucial for reasoning about the correctness of object-oriented programs. However, reasoning about object invari...
We consider the problem of pricing items so as to maximize the profit made from selling these items. An instance is given by a set E of n items and a set of m clients, where each c...
Base Object Model (BOM) is a component-based standard designed to support reusability and Composability. Reusability helps in reducing time and cost of the development of a simula...
Imran Mahmood, Rassul Ayani, Vladimir Vlassov, Far...