Abstract. We address the problem of developing efficient cache coherence protocols implementing distributed shared memory (DSM) using message passing. A serious drawback of traditi...
The design of a class hierarchy may be imperfect. For example, a class C may contain a member m not accessed in any C-instance, an indication that m could be eliminated, or moved ...
In this paper, we discuss the various issues in designing intelligent software systems to assist worldwide-web users in locating relevant information. We identi3 a number of key c...
Joseph K. W. Lee, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, J...
Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a u...
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...