Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
As Bayesian networks become widely accepted as a normative formalism for diagnosis based on probabilistic knowledge, they are applied to increasingly larger problem domains. These...
Yanping Xiang, Kristian G. Olesen, Finn Verner Jen...
—There are several analytical results on distributed hash tables (DHTs) that can tolerate Byzantine faults. Unfortunately, in such systems, operations such as data retrieval and ...
Maxwell Young, Aniket Kate, Ian Goldberg, Martin K...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...