Many planning and design problems can be characterized as optimal search over a constrained network of conditional choices with preferences. To draw upon the advanced methods of c...
In this paper, we present an algorithm for scheduling of distributed data intensive Bag-of-Task applications on Data Grids that have costs associated with requesting, transferring ...
We propose a class of actor-oriented statistical models for closed social networks in general, and friendship networks in particular. The models are random utility models develope...
Gerhard G. Van De Bunt, Marijtje A. J. Van Duijn, ...
The Internet network technology today does not allow a sufficient degree of autonomy to express user choices, constraints and preferences in order to dynamically obtain the most su...
—The XML language is becoming the preferred means of data interchange and representation in web based applications. Usually, XML data is stored in XML repositories, which can be ...