This paper describes \Object Group", an object behavioral pattern for group communication and fault-tolerance in distributed systems. The Object Group pattern supports the im...
Abstract— Situated agents engaged in open systems continually face with external events requiring adequate services and behavioral responses. In these conditions agents should be...
tems. STARS manipulates abstract representations of system components to obtain upper bounds on the number of various events in the system, as well as a bound on the response time....
This paper examines the impact of RFID investment announcements on the market value of the firms and explores industry effects of the positive abnormal returns to firms making the...
Although the potential impacts of virtual communities have been widely recognized in business and academia, little research has been done to provide guidelines for design of such ...