— Reputation systems can be used in online markets and communities in order to stimulate quality and good behaviour as well as to sanction poor quality and bad behaviour. The bas...
Today, there is a variety of systems that support business process as a whole or partially. However, normative systems are not appropriate for some domains (e.g. health care) as a...
Publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems are useful for many applications, including pervasive environments. In the latter context, however, great care must be taken to preserve the pr...
From large-scale acquisition of information on security incidents by early warning systems (EWS) arises the opportunity to draw up a situation picture that allows detection of tre...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...