Freight transportation at distribution nodes such as marine ports, airports and rail yards has been putting tremendous environmental pressure in metropolitan areas. A prerequisite...
Qunzhi Zhou, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, Rama...
An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
Effective Web site design is critical to the success of e-commerce. Therefore, the evaluation and enhancement of a Web site design is of great importance. In this vein, accessibil...
Multiple studies in the information systems (IS) literature recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate returns. Nevertheless, there has been a ...
Nowadays many data grid applications need to manage and process a huge amount of data distributed across multiple grid nodes and stored into heterogeneous databases. Grids encoura...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Sandro Fiore, Ma...