: Today, electronic cross-company collaboration is about to gain significant momentum, but still shows weaknesses with respect to productivity, flexibility and quality: A lack of s...
Business to consumer (B2C) electronic commerce has led to new relationships connecting various supply chain partners via the Internet, significantly increasing the quantity and qu...
Power management has been a critical issue in the design of embedded systems due to the limited power supply. To prolong the lifetime, energy minimization has been studied under p...
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
A delay of about 100 ms gives human communicators the feeling of live interaction. Since in a global network the propagation delay alone is about 100 ms, every other delay compone...