Abstract. In this paper we address a model of self interested information agents competing to perform tasks. The agents are situated in an uncertain environment while different tas...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Abstract. Based on the specific characteristics of electronic commerce (ECommerce) requirements for an adequate system support, this contribution gives an overview of the respectiv...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
The problem of efficiently finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied. However...