Testing of concurrent programs is much more difficult than that of sequential programs. A concurrent program behaves nondeterministically, that is, the program may produce differe...
We report on an experiment to implement an autonomous creature situated in a two-dimensional world, that shows various learning and problem-solving capabilities, within the Societ...
This paper presents a domain-independent architecture for facilitating visual problem solving between robots or softbots and humans. The architecture denes virtual and human agen...
Businesses today need to interrelate data stored in diverse systems with differing capabilities, ideally via a single high-level query interface. We present the design of a query ...
Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers,...
As computers are increasingly used to mediate social interaction, tools are needed not only to support direct communication, but also to create a richer social environment for the...