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...
Market-based resource management is becoming an emerging issue as the utilization of Grid computing is growing rapidly, particularly in the business field. In this paper, we prov...
Dealing with temporal uncertainties is a key issue in domains like project management or medical treatment planning. However, support for temporal indeterminacies is not very well...
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Bettina Thurnher, ...
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...
Multicasting is an effective method to guarantee scalability of data transfer. Multicast applications range from the relief of Internet hot spots to healthcare alert systems. Much...
Panos K. Chrysanthis, Vincenzo Liberatore, Kirk Pr...