One of the reasons why large-scale software development is difficult is the number of dependencies that software engineers need to face: e.g., dependencies among the software comp...
Erik Trainer, Stephen Quirk, Cleidson R. B. de Sou...
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...
Several initiatives for establishing standards for metadata models are being carried out at the moment, but everyone focuses on their own requirements when defining metadata attri...
Some of the data available to today’s enterprise applications is inconsistent. This is an inevitable consequence of data being distributed and partially replicated in many locati...
Peter Henderson, Robert John Walters, Stephen Crou...
One of the major challenges facing current media management systems and related applications is the so-called ‘‘semantic gap’’ between the rich meaning that a user desires...
Baoxin Li, James H. Errico, Hao Pan, M. Ibrahim Se...