The rapid growth of the Internet has made computer-mediated communication popular and the use of e-negotiation systems (ENS) has attracted great attention from researchers and pra...
— Within service-oriented business environments, the non-routine processing of requests requires a greater degree of social interaction and learning in order to achieve an effect...
A framework to assess transient performance measures is introduced by generalizing the theory of the quasi Birthand-Death (QBD) paradigm to QBDs with marked time epochs (QBDm ). T...
Inspired by the attractive Flops/dollar ratio and the incredible growth in the speed of modern graphics processing units (GPUs), we propose to use a cluster of GPUs for high perfo...
Zhe Fan, Feng Qiu, Arie E. Kaufman, Suzanne Yoakum...
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...