Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Metacomputing is an emergent paradigm that makes possible to distribute applications over a heterogeneous set of computing systems to exploit all available resources. The paper pr...
Antonio Corradi, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonel...
The emergence of several communication architectures for System-on-Chips provides designers with a variety of design alternatives. In addition, the need to customize the system ar...
We describe an agent architecture that integrates emotions, drives, and behaviors, and that focuses on modeling some of the aspects of emotions as fundamental components within th...
In recent years the application space of reconfigurable devices has grown to include many platforms with a strong need for fault tolerance. While these systems frequently contain ...