Service providers (SP) business goals require an efficient management of their computational resources in order to perform provisioning, deployment, execution and adaptation whic...
The evolution of mobile technologies, like web-enable cellphones, PDAs and wireless networks, makes it now possible to use these technologies for collaborative work through web-bas...
Abstract. In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational ling...
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...
Abstract. In the framework of possibility theory, a tool named `fuzzy pattern matching' (FPM) has been proposed in the eighties and since successfully used in flexible queryin...