Most artificial intelligence research investigates intelligent behavior for a single agent--
solving problems heuristically, understanding natural language, and so on. Distributed …

Denotational semantics is a methodology for giving mathematical meaning to programming
languages and systems. It was developed by Christopher Strachey's Programming …

Statistical performance evaluation has assumed an increasing amount of importance as we
seek to design more and more sophisticated communication and information processing …

In this article, I seek to define the boundaries and attributes of network organizations, why
these structures emerge, and when they are likely to be successful. I review the literature on …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Distributed problem solving is a subfield of artificial intelligence that deals with the
interactions of groups of intelligent agents attempting to cooperate to solve problems …

Concurrent computing is gaining ground in interest as it becomes increasingly feasible to
implement distributed computing across networks of workstations. This book, by one of the …

Concurrent data structures simplify the development of concurrent programs by
encapsulating commonly used mechanisms for synchronization and commu nication into …

The promise of logic programming is that programs can be written relationally, without
distinguishing between input and output arguments. Relational programs are remarkably …

Introduces a general, extensible diagrammatic syntax for expressing software architectures
based on typed nodes and connections and formalized using set theory. The syntax …