Abstract. We focus on discrete event systems with a structure of parallel processing, synchronization, and noconcurrency. We use max-plus algebra, which is an effective approach fo...
In this paper we propose a taxonomy for classifying COTS business applications, i.e. products that are used in the daily functioning of all types of organizations worldwide, such a...
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Ma...
Emerging electronic commerce services that use public-key cryptography on a mass-market scale require sophisticated mechanisms for managing trust. For example, any service that rec...
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering (QA) system i...
Formal Project management is vital to the effective application of organizational resources to competing demands within and across projects. The use of project management, however...
Russell L. Purvis, Gordon E. McCray, Tom L. Robert...