Abstract- This paper deals with "Knowledge Management Systems" (KMS) which are seen as a new kind of information systems supporting organizational information processing....
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
With the advent of fast growing Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), more and more companies start the electronic commerce to enhance the business competitiveness. On the other hand...
Two main Rights Expression Languages (RELs) exist to describe licenses governing the access to digital content: ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) and MPEG-21 REL. Both RELs are ...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...