Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Dwell time on Web pages has been extensively used for various information retrieval tasks. However, some basic yet important questions have not been sufficiently addressed, e.g., ...
Software reuse technologies have been a driving force in significantly reducing both the time and cost of software specification, development, maintenance and evolution. However, t...
: The availability of enormous amounts of un-used computing power and data storage over the In-ternet makes the development of a globally distributed computing platform, called Ove...
Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Bianco, Andrea Pietracaprina,...
We investigate two challenges advance of e-commerce creates for traditional practice of travel distribution. First, we explore whether travel providers benefit from strategically ...