Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...
Abstract—The sharing of caches among Web proxies is an important technique to reduce Web traffic and alleviate network bottlenecks. Nevertheless it is not widely deployed due to ...
Li Fan, Pei Cao, Jussara M. Almeida, Andrei Z. Bro...
Advanced CAD tools and high-density VLSI technologies have combined to create a new market for reusable digital designs. The economic viability of the new core-based design paradig...
John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Miodrag Potk...
Abstract. Combinatorial search methods often exhibit a large variability in performance. We study the cost pro les of combinatorial search procedures. Our study reveals some intrig...
Stochastic modeling forms the basis for analysis in many areas, including biological and economic systems, as well as the performance and reliability modeling of computers and comm...