Soft constraints extend classical constraints to deal with non-functional requirements, overconstrained problems and preferences. Bistarelli, Montanari and Rossi have developed a ...
Martin Wirsing, Grit Denker, Carolyn L. Talcott, A...
Applications running over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have exploded since the late 1990s. Research is needed into many aspects of P2P. These include architecture, application func...
This paper presents a knowledge-intensive support paradigm for platform-based product family design and development. The fundamental issues underlying the product family design an...
Fault-tolerance and lookup consistency are considered crucial properties for building applications on top of structured overlay networks. Many of these networks use the ring topol...
The purpose of this paper is to re-address the vision of human-computer symbiosis as originally expressed by J.C.R. Licklider nearly a half-century ago and to argue for the releva...