Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is complicate...
Karl Czajkowski, Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karoni...
In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...
rigorous, and abstract— clearly defined and generally agreed—type inheritance model. To quote an article by Taivalsaari: “The basic idea of inheritance is quite simple ... [a...
This paper employs epistemic logic to investigate the philosophical foundations of Bayesian updating in belief revision. By Bayesian updating, we understand the tenet that an agen...
A key challenge for dynamic Web service selection is that Web services are typically highly configurable and service requesters often have dynamic preferences on service configura...