Recently, the focus of IT outsourcing has been shifting from the “what” and “why” issues to “how” companies manage outsourcing process, during which the relationship m...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
The academic field of information systems has developed because organizations use a specialized body of knowledge about information and communications systems. Teaching and resear...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...