Complex distributed Internet services form the basis not only of e-commerce but increasingly of mission-critical networkbased applications. What is new is that the workload and in...
This paper presents a basic framework for applying static task scheduling techniques to arbitrarily-structured task systems whose targeted execution environment is comprised of fi...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...
In this paper we discuss the integration of two systems that are based on a specific theory of argumentation: the first, an existing web-based discussion forum; the second, a metho...
Legal regulations and industry standards require organizations to measure and maintain a specified IT-security level. Although several IT-security metrics approaches have been de...