Abstract. Traditionally, the investment funds market exploits analysis and design concepts based on the procedural programming approach. We propose a set of analysis patterns which...
Abstract. The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust ma...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Automatizing the merging of knowledgebases is an important step towards more efficient knowledge management. The cases when two knowledgebases need to be merged completely into a m...