Given that resource providers and consumers may have different requirements and performance goals, concurrent negotiation is considered in this work to successfully obtain commitm...
This paper presents a collaborative semantic tracking framework based on topic maps which aims to integrate and organize the data/information resources that spread throughout the I...
Abstract. Workflow is an important approach for the specification and management of complex processing tasks. This approach is especially powerful for utilizing distributed service...
Many governmental organizations nowadays are setting up e-government initiatives to improve the delivery of services to citizens. Often, these initiatives require information exch...
Approximate dynamic programming is emerging as a powerful tool for certain classes of multistage stochastic, dynamic problems that arise in operations research. It has been applie...