In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Predicting grid performance is a complex task because heterogeneous resource nodes are involved in a distributed environment. Long execution workload on a grid is even harder to pr...
Online auctions have become a pervasive transaction mechanism for e-commerce. As the largest online marketplace in the world, eBay is an attractive case study that enables the stu...
Scientific and engineering programming has been around since the beginning of computing, often being the driving force for new system development and innovation. At the same time...
Michael A. Heroux, James M. Willenbring, Michael N...
Abstract. This article presents a proposal for managing privacy in pervasive environments. These environments are capable of sensing personal information anywhere and at anytime. T...
Abraham Esquivel, Pablo A. Haya, Manuel Garc&iacut...