In this paper we study a class of resource allocation games which are inspired by the El Farol Bar problem. We consider a system of competitive agents that have to choose between ...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
This paper presents a novel architecture called the MetaGrid based on Grid computing concepts for resource provisioning for wide-area network-enabled applications. Resource provis...
Contours and surfaces are basic qualities which are processed by the visual system to aid the successful behavior of autonomous beings within the environment. There is increasing e...
Safety of interoperation of program fragments written in different safe languages may fail when the languages have different systems of computational effects: an exception raised b...