—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
Models to understand the impact of management practices on retail performance are often simplistic and assume low levels of noise and linearity. Of course, in real-life, retail op...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...
During the last ten years the approach to business management has deeply changed, and companies have understood the importance of enforcing achievement of the goals defined by the...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
Electronic commerce applications (e-commerce) need connecting technologies to support the external, agreed-upon or flexible business processes. This requires a specification of th...