Abstract. Many online problems encountered in real-life involve a twostage decision process: upon arrival of a new request, an irrevocable firststage decision (the assignment of a...
Stefan Heinz, Sven Oliver Krumke, Nicole Megow, J&...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
A key question in the field of agent-oriented software engineering is how the kind and extent of autonomy owned by computational agents can be appropriately captured. As long as ...
The emergence of multicore processors has increased the need for simple parallel programming models usable by nonexperts. The ability to specify subparts of a bigger data structur...