Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...
Aiming to clarify the convergence or divergence conditions for Learning Classifier System (LCS), this paper explores: (1) an extreme condition where the reinforcement process of ...
As communications systems increasingly gather and propagate information about people’s reachability or “presence”, users need better tools to minimize undesired interruption...
This paper describes a highly available distributedvideo on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at...
Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management (PIM) enables users to control which personal information they provide to their communication partner(s) by partitioning their personal infor...
Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann, Elke Franz, Andreas Pfitz...