In a competitive telecommunications marketplace, operators must provide customers with rapid access to both new and traditional service offerings. Market share is developed through...
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of a...
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Lu...
This paper extends the Boltzmann Selection, a method in EDA with theoretical importance, from discrete domain to the continuous one. The difficulty of estimating the exact Boltzma...
We present an analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of function and object based models in system specification. Functional models should be used for functional design space expl...