Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...
In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
: We consider socio-technical processes, i.e. processes where machines as well as humans participate. Typical examples occur in sales processes in e-commerce. Three modeling tasks ...
The contribution of this paper is the expansion of the range of possibilities in the analysis, planning, and control of contact tasks. The successful execution of any contact task...
Decentralized POMDPs provide an expressive framework for sequential multi-agent decision making. Despite their high complexity, there has been significant progress in scaling up e...