Workflow management systems guide and monitor tasks performed by humans and computers. The workflow specifications are usually expressed in special purpose (graphical) formalisms....
Jan Martin Jansen, Rinus Plasmeijer, Pieter W. M. ...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
Security is a critical issue in dynamic and open distributed environments such as network-based services or wireless networks. To ensure that a certain level of security is maintai...
At present there exists a large gap in size, performance, adaptability and robustness between natural and artificial information processors for performing coherent perception-act...