: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of ChristopherAlexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect’s...
One important trend in enterprise-scale IT has been the increasing use of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) technologies to automate business processes that cross organisati...
Dean Kuo, Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Julian Jan...
: Classical inventory models offer a variety of insights into the optimal way to manage inventories of individual products. However, top managers and industry analysts are often co...
The relational data model is based on sets of tuples, i.e. it does not allow duplicate tuples in a relation. Many database languages and systems do require multi-set place, the hi...