While reasoners are year after year scaling up in the classical, time invariant domain of ontological knowledge, reasoning upon rapidly changing information has been neglected or f...
Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Ceri, Davide Frances...
The developers of management systems and the management services that operate over them will be faced with increasing complexity as services are developed for the open service mar...
David Lewis, Thanassis Tiropanis, Lennart H. Bjerr...
In logistics of today's economy we have to deal with distributed systems. To support the demanding management task the multi-agent approach offers promising perspectives. For ...
The evolution of the global telecommunications industry into an open services market presents developers of telecommunication service and management systems with many new challeng...
David Lewis, Thanassis Tiropanis, Cliff Redmond, V...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...
Global Number Portability (GNP) is becoming a key service to increase competition and profit of a service provider for the ever-growing telephone marketplace. In this paper, we pr...
Kyu-Hyung Kim, Dong-Hee Lee, Eun-Ju Ha, Jong-Tae P...
Flexible and distributed management systems based on mobile agents have certain advantages over centralized and static management architectures. However, security plays a decisive...
Abstract. Enterprise applications implement business resource management systems, customer relationship management systems, and general systems for commerce. These applications rel...
The assignment of tasks to human performers is a critical component in people-centric business process management systems. Workflow management systems typically assign work items u...
Hajo A. Reijers, Monique H. Jansen-Vullers, Michae...