In today’s businesses, there is a trend that serviceoriented architecture (SOA) is evolving into a popular architectural paradigm for IT infrastructure. SOA allows companies’ ...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...
— In today's competitive environment, analysing data to predict market trends of products and services and to improve the performance of enterprise systems is an essential b...
Ben Azvine, Zhan Cui, Detlef Nauck, Basim A. Majee...
In the context of electronic commerce, recommender systems enable merchants to assist customers in finding available products that will best satisfy their need. However, a recomm...
We present a dynamic and distributed approach to the hospital patient scheduling problem: the multi-agent Pareto-improvement appointment exchanging algorithm, MPAEX. It respects t...
Ivan B. Vermeulen, Sander M. Bohte, D. J. A. Somef...
Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service su...
E-contracts are used to describe the supply and the consumption details of e-services within a business process. The establishment of e-contracts in a given application domain usu...
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo,...
Self-Healing and self-optimizing service based applications are important steps towards the self-organizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Self-Organizing SOAs replace serv...
— To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP), a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used. Better utilization can ...
Martin Wimmer, Valentin Nicolescu, Daniel Gmach, M...
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions (ICA) have been getting increasing attention in computer science and economics, as they provide an efficient solution to resource allocation prob...
Alexander Pikovsky, Pasha Shabalin, Martin Bichler
Distributed event-based middleware (DEBM) provides a basis for the interoperation of autonomous components in large-scale systems. Transactions ensure the atomic and reliable exec...