The world-wide-web (WWW) today consists of distinct, isolated islands of data and metadata. In the near future we expect the availability of a critical mass of data and metadata f...
Wolfgang Ketter, Arun Batchu, Gary Berosik, Dan Mc...
In this paper, we studied the semantic consistency maintenance issue between heterogeneous contexts, that is, how a firm business process of one e-marketplace can be transformed t...
Conventional conversational recommender systems support interaction strategies that are hard-coded into the system in advance. In this context, Reinforcement Learning techniques h...
Online auction services have reached great popularity and revenue over the last years. A key component for this success is the seller. Few studies proposed analyzing how the selle...
Arlei Silva, Pedro Calais, Adriano M. Pereira, Fer...
The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT's role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT...
Prior theory and empirical work emphasize the enormous free-riding problem facing peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing networks. Nonetheless, many P2P networks thrive. We explore two possib...
This paper focuses on the problem of how to allow sharing of copyrighted content between a set of authorised devices and preventing unauthoried copying of content to other devices...
Semantic Web Services (SWS) are an important part of the Semantic Web, traditionally focused on discovery and composition of e-services. In the area of e-commerce services, it is ...
In this paper we propose an extended version of the open source jUDDI implementation by the Apache Software Foundation, adapted to pervasive RFID contexts. The registry
Michele Ruta, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio...