— Building a good cooperation in the P2P resource sharing is a fundamental and challenging research topic because of peer anonymity, peer independence, high dynamics of peer beha...
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the cus...
The political intentions for the past 20 years have broadly speaking been to reduce the number of publicly owned and publicly run activities. Outsourcing is an often applied way t...
This paper presents RDSS, a Resource Area Network (RAN)-based Distributed Storage System, which is designed for high scalability, long-term reliability, and operational efficiency...
Many information systems (IS) studies portray use as an indicator of system success. However, “simply saying that more use will yield more benefits without considering the natur...
Research in face-to-face communication has identified a variety of largely unconscious patterns of behavior that are used by collaborators to coordinate their conversation, build ...
In recent years, the development of software in open source communities has attracted immense attention from research and practice. The idea of commercial quality, free software, ...
Expert systems are originally designed to generate feasible alternatives in automated manner. The users expect the systems to contribute to make decisions proactively and intellig...