E-contracts are used to describe the supply and the consumption details of e-services within a business process. The establishment of e-contracts in a given application domain usu...
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo,...
This paper presents a novel approach to design and develop an assembly and execution shell for multiagent applications based on the concept of a mission. A mission is a live evolv...
Glenn T. Jayaputera, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Seng Wai...
The interaction among variables of an optimization problem is known as epistasis, and its degree is an important measure for the nonlinearity of the problem. We address the proble...
—Orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) codes are used in both universal terrestrial radio access–frequency division duplex (UTRA-FDD) and time division duplex (UTRA-TDD) ...
Kuznetsov’s condition says that variables X and Y are independent when any product of bounded functions f(X) and g(Y) behaves in a certain way: the interval of expected values E...