In a typical reinforcement learning (RL) setting details of the environment are not given explicitly but have to be estimated from observations. Most RL approaches only optimize th...
The coordination of concurrent activities in collaborative environments is a very important and difficult task. Many approaches for the construction of large-scale flexible grou...
Paola Inverardi, Massimo Tivoli, Antonio Bucchiaro...
Ubiquitous computing systems can be regarded as open systems where heterogeneous and previously unknown entities may spontaneously interact, due to intrinsic mobility of users and...
Workflow technology is an emerging paradigm for systematic modeling and orchestration of job flow for enterprise and scientific applications. This paper introduces BPEL4Job, a BPEL...
This paper describes how discrete-event simulation enhanced a traditional process design effort for a new media company in pre-launch mode. Because the company's business mod...