The paper considers the conditions governing the diffusion and development of e-commerce. The analysis builds on earlier discussions of technological successions and explores a nu...
Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...
We consider single-stage, single-product Make-to-Stock systems with random demand and random service (production) rate, where demand shortages at the inventory facility are backor...
There are many technologies for distributed processing/interoperation, including CORBA, DCE, DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, Java IDL, JDBC, etc. Most promising, is the emergence of ...
Steven A. Demurjian, T. C. Ting, J. Balthazar, H. ...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm proposes several attractive solutions to deal with the problems of networkcentric programming. Despite the availability of several MA platforms, the...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...