Elastic Internet applications have the greatest share in the traffic transported over the Internet today. Web access and e-mail are the most popular applications among most people using the Internet. Although these applications can well adapt to a wide range of band- widths, their performance is...

This paper is a discussion on the topic of the voice enabled web and the revenue opportunities which exist therein. The paper gives an overview of the technology used to implement such systems and explains some of the revenue models of companies in that area. The paper examines the technology of...

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...

The economic theory of technological change is a theory of investment. Agents invest in an activity called research; a black box process returns a value for a variable that shifts the production function. This paper proposes a way to open the black box. It is motivated both by theoretical...