Social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) and other services with user-generated content have made a staggering amount of information (and misinformation) available....
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Edward A. Fox, Steven D. Shee...
In recent years, the data management community has begun to consider situations in which data access is closely tied to network routing and distributed acquisition: examples includ...
Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Za...
Almost all medium- and large-scale businesses rely on electronic workflow systems to manage their business processes. A key challenge is to enable the easy re-use and modification...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...