Emerging peer-to-peer services such as Freenet, Gnutella, Kazaa, and Napster provide an easy and efficient way to share resources and information. However, misuse or unfair exploit...
Hoh Peter In, Konstantinos A. Meintanis, Ming Zhan...
Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...
The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of curren...
Hagen Langer, Jan D. Gehrke, Joachim Hammer, Marti...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
Abstract. In this chapter we discuss the susceptibility of critical information infrastructures to computer-borne attacks and faults, mainly due to their largely computerized natur...