Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
The asymptotic distribution of estimates that are based on a sub-optimal search for the maximum of the log-likelihood function is considered. In particular, estimation schemes that...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...
Virtual types have been proposed as a notation for generic programming in object-oriented languages—an alternative to the more familiar mechanism of parametric classes. The trade...
This paper considers resource allocation algorithms for processing streams of events on computational grids. For example, financial trading applications are executed on large comp...