The development of efficient parallel out-of-core applications is often tedious, because of the need to explicitly manage the movement of data between files and data structures ...
Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...
The quality of data is a key factor that determines the performance of information systems, in particular with regard (1) to the amount of exceptions in the execution of business p...
: The emergence of new electronic procurement applications and the rise of existing ones to their full potential have been revolutionising the disciplines of procurement and suppli...
Pervasive systems require context awareness in order to be able to provide “anywhere, anytime” computing to mobile users. One type of context information is location informati...