Agents are becoming a popular technology for the development of distributed, heterogeneous and always available systems. In those systems, interactions are essential, but semantic ...
The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
For several years, the financial services industry has discovered the opportunities of different channels like the Internet, call-centers, WAP etc. Many banks built up separate di...
Jochen Dzienziol, Michael Eberhardt, Annette Renz,...
We analyze a general market for an industry of competing service facilities. Firms differentiate themselves by their price levels and the waiting time their customers experience,...
Integration of the currently available computing systems and platforms is one of the most envisaged goals achieved by computer scientists, which starts to become a reality nowaday...
Guilherme Bertoni Machado, Frank Siqueira, Robinso...