This paper describes a decentralized consistency protocol for survivable storage that exploits local data versioning within each storage-node. Such versioning enables the protocol...
Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger,...
We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
Instance-based learning (IBL) algorithms have proved to be successful in many applications. However, as opposed to standard statistical methods, a prediction in IBL is usually give...
Norms are essential to extend inference: inferences based on norms are far richer than those based on logical implications. In the recent decades, much effort has been devoted to r...
We present a user interface, the OntoRefiner1 system, for helping the user to navigate numerous retrieved documents after a search querying a semantic portal which integrates a ver...