The development of applications and tools for highperformance "computational grids" is complicated by the heterogeneity and frequently dynamic behavior of the underlying...
Sharon Brunett, Karl Czajkowski, Steven Fitzgerald...
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Direct marketing is a process of identifying likely buyers of certain products and promoting the products accordingly. It is increasingly used by banks, insurance companies, and t...
Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...