One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...
As disk arrays become widely used, tools for understanding and analyzing their performance become increasingly important. In particular, performance models can be invaluable in bo...
Specifying the motion of an animated linked figure such that it achieves given tasks (e.g., throwing a ball into a basket) and performs the tasks in a realistic fashion (e.g., gra...
Object-oriented database OODB users bring with them large quantities of legacy data megabytes and even gigabytes. In addition, scienti c OODB users continually generate new data. ...
Practical solid modeling systems are plagued by numerical problems that arise from using oatingpoint arithmetic. For example, polyhedral solids are often represented by a combinat...