Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of heteroge...
This paper presents a method that can be used for the elicitation and speci cation of requirements and high-level design. It supports stakeholder-based modeling, rapid feasibility...
Decision making is the ability to decide on the best alternative among a set of candidates based on their value. In many real-world domains the value depends on events that occur ...
The importance of pushing the performance envelope of disk drives continues to grow, not just in the server market but also in numerous consumer electronics products. One of the m...
We study the impact of a set of industry, firm- and e-commerce-related factors on Internet firm survival. Through the use of one age-based and another calendar time-based Bayesian...