Dial-a-Ride systems involve dispatching a vehicle to satisfy demands from a set of customers who call a vehicle operating agency requesting that an item be picked up from a specif...
eal world”, represented abstractly using (time-varying) first-order logic predicates and terms. A representative composition result [11] here uses a translation into Petri nets. ...
Previous approaches to service selection are mainly based on capturing and exchanging the ratings of consumers to providers. However, ratings reflect tastes of the raters. Theref...
Abstract. Web portals provide an efficient gateway to a broad range of Eservices, resources and information. Web portals need to evolve towards being adaptive in nature, so that th...
Advances in sensing and tracking technology enable location-based applications but they also create significant privacy risks. Anonymity can provide a high degree of privacy, save...