VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has brought 3D objects and virtual worlds to a large number of Internet users. While it provides a suitable basis for the platform ind...
In financial engineering the problem of portfolio selection has drawn much attention in the last decades. But still unsolved problems remain, while on the one hand the type of mod...
Short time-to-market, easy adaptation to changes in business environment, and robustness of processes are key requirements in today’s business world. In the IT area of Business P...
Multiagent systems (MAS) are spreading, in the academic world as well as in industry. Nevertheless, MAS design is still a problem. The agent community now has some experience. So, ...
Why might B-tree concurrency control still be interesting? For two reasons: (i) currently exploited "real world" approaches are complicated; (ii) simpler proposals are n...