Auctions have become popular in conducting trade negotiations on the Internet. The design of new auction formats and other negotiation protocols has become an important topic for r...
As originally conceived, the World Wide Web was intended for the purpose of sharing information. Many websites realise this aim by publishing pages from a data repository which su...
Abstract. The connectivity generated by the Internet is opening unprecedented opportunities of automating business-to-business collaborations. As a result, organisations of all siz...
Mode-Automata have been proposed in [11]. They introduce, in the domain-specific data-flow language Lustre for reactive systems, a new construct devoted to the expression of runn...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...