There were always two separated methods to make agent coordination: individual-local balance perspective and individualsociety balance perspective. The first method only considere...
Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...
As scientific research becomes more data intensive, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and high performance storage systems. Such data repositories must provide b...
Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick J. Flynn, Douglas Th...
Advanced e-services require efficient, flexible, and easy-to-use workflow technology that integrates well with mainstream Internet technologies like XML and Web servers. This pape...
In this paper, we present our experiences concerning the enforcement of access rights extracted from ODRL-based digital contracts. We introduce the generalized Contract Schema (Co...