In only four or five years, the world wide web has changed from a static collection of HTML web pages to a dynamic engine that powers e-commerce, collaborative work, and distribut...
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Organizational Self-Design (OSD) has been proposed as an approach to constructing suitable organizations at runtime in which the agents are responsible for constructing their own ...
We propose a real time single item auction based task allocation method for the multi-robot exploration problem and investigate new bid evaluation strategies in this domain. In th...
Self-managing systems able to dynamically re-configure with respect to time-varying workload mixes and changing system resource availability are of growing importance in heterogen...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson, Gabriele Kotsis, Cos...