: Until now the growing volume of heterogeneous and distributed information on the WWW makes increasingly difficult for the existing tools to retrieve relevant information. To impr...
This paper reports on a research study concerning the integration of electronic commerce (EC) into the pre-sales business processes of small firms. By means of a field survey, 17 ...
A regional transportation system and the movement of large traffic volumes through it, are characteristic of stochastic systems. The standard traffic management or transportation ...
Widespread access to the Internet has led to the formation of geographically dispersed scientific communities collaborating through the network. The tools supporting such collabor...
Developing and managing applications for environments consisting of independently congured computing systems interoperating acrossnetwork connections is of considerable interest ...