A handheld PDA-based system is being developed to help blind people in their daily tasks. The design combines in a continuous process Users' involvement and Engineers' e...
The interaction of simultaneously co-allocated jobs can often create contention in the network infrastructure of a dedicated computational grid. This contention can lead to degrad...
William M. Jones, Louis W. Pang, Walter B. Ligon I...
This paper presents a proposal for integrating in a single CORBA middleware platform two important OMG specifications: FTCORBA, which provides fault-tolerance support for CORBA obj...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Joni da Silva Fraga, Lau Ch...
Wide-area networks provide an easy access to many different distributed and heterogeneous data sources. The development of automated operating tools is still complex, particularly...
Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Sebastien Leriche, Marc Pante...
The AgentSpeak agent-oriented programming language has recently been extended with various new features, such as speech-act based communication, internal belief additions, and supp...
Natasha Alechina, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred H&u...