The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Requirements Driven Agent Collaboration (RDAC) is a mechanism where the self-interested service agents actively and autonomously search for the required services submitted by the ...
This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling t...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Jinfeng Hu, Ming Chen...
The Swiss National Competence Center for Research in mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS or MICS) is one of several research initiatives sponsored by the Swiss...
In several working environments, production involves repeated executions of certain procedures. A workflow describes the individual tasks performed in these procedures and their i...
Anastassia Ailamaki, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Li...