Personalization and effective user profile management will be critical to meet the individual users' needs and for achieving eInclusion and eAccessibility. This paper outlines...
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
This document presents provisioning strategies for emerging hybrid optical networks. The idea is to make use of policy-based management that guides the behavior of a network throu...
Abstract. E-Science Semantic Grids can often be thought of as dynamic collection of semantic subgrids where each subgrid is a collection of modest number of services that assembled...
MASSIVE is a distributed virtual reality system. It provides rich facilities to support user interaction and cooperation via text, audio and graphics media, and interaction is con...