Distributed Shared Memory is a memory scheme for a distributed system where a collection of workstations share a single, paged virtual address space. Needed pages are obtained from other processors over the network.In its simplest version, each page is present on exactly one machine. References...

Intelligent agent programs and expert systems in certain application domains may share considerable functionality: at an abstract level. specifications of these programs will share some of the knowledge they need to carry out their tasks. If there was a way in which this knowledge could be...

This paper presents a biologically-inspired, hardware-realisable spiking neuron model, which we call the Temporal Noisy-Leaky Integrator (TNLI). The dynamic applications of the model as well as its applications in Computational Neuroscience are demonstrated and a learning algorithm based on...

Distributed Data Mining is the process of extracting hidden knowledge from distributed data sources. A number of DDM architectures are proposed during the last few years. Recently, Optimized Incremental Knowledge Integration Distributed Data Mining model is proposed. It is a mobile-agent based...

In this paper we first survey the three major types of computer music systems based on AI techniques: compositional, improvisational, and performance systems. Representative examples of each type are briefly described. Then, we look in more detail at the problem of endowing the resulting...

Extremal Optimization, a recently introduced meta-heuristic for hard optimization problems, is analyzed on a simple model of jamming. The model is motivated first by the problem of finding lowest energy configurations for a disordered spin system on a fixed-valence graph. The numerical results...

This paper contains a model of waste elimination through design. It argues for the importance of managing design complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time-to-market performance variables. Management of design complexity is identified with creation, choice, and application of...