At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...
Traditionally, application software developers carry out their tests on their own local development databases. However, such local databases usually have only a small number of sa...
Discovering association rules that identify relationships among sets of items is an important problem in data mining. Finding frequent item sets is computationally the most expens...
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...