Federated distributed systems present new challenges to resource management, which cannot be met by conventional systems that employ relatively static resource models and centrali...
Motivated by the increasing need to handle complex multidimensional data in location-based data warehouses, this paper proposes a powerful data model that is able to capture the c...
Electric Power Systems (EPS) become more and more critical for our society, since they provide vital services for the human activities. At the same time, obtaining dependable beha...
Francesco Romani, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita Di...
Current electronic commerce applications such as online auction systems are not trustworthy due to a lack of effective trust management mechanisms. A trustworthy online auction sy...
With the increasing ubiquity of sensors and computational resources, it is becoming easier and increasingly common for people to electronically record, photographs, text, audio, a...