Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
Optimization of execution plans in information mediators is a critical task, specially when sources are remote and semistructured, as in the case of transactional web sites. Lack ...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Web Services (WS) provide a flexible computing platform for electronic business and commerce. Introducing policy-based computing to service-or...
Uncertainty always exists as an unavoidable factor when developing context-aware applications for pervasive computing environments [1][2][3][4]. In this paper, we propose a unifie...
This paper presents a process modeling language known as the GridPML for the composition of Grid Services. The GridPML is an XML-based language that supports basic control flow co...
Hua Ma, Susan Darling Urban, Yang Xiao, Suzanne W....
Over a traditional Database Management System (DBMS), the answer to an aggregate query is usually much smaller than the answer to a similar nonaggregate query. Therefore, we call ...
Recently a new model agent-based e-commerce system was proposed, in which rule-based mechanism representation was combined with lightweight modular mobile agent design. Furthermor...