At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...
We propose an open and extensible agent-based formal framework for modeling and simulating supply chains. Since structures and behaviors of supply chains can be very different bas...
The development of applications for monitoring, control, simulation and diagnosis in the petroleum industry involves a multitude of complex software tools. These tools have their ...
Cong Zhang, Viktor K. Prasanna, Abdollah Orangi, W...
This paper continues the movement from technology centered to human centered approaches in the study of tasks that involve finding, understanding, and using information, and tools...
Every time a user engaged in work reads or writes, the user spontaneously generates new information needs: to understand the text he or she is reading or to supply more substance ...
David A. Evans, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, Jame...