Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
: As ICT provide a lot of possibilities, high expectancies exist towards the electronic public service provision. All governments are increasingly establishing their e-strategies. ...
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...