The political intentions for the past 20 years have broadly speaking been to reduce the number of publicly owned and publicly run activities. Outsourcing is an often applied way t...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...
Multiparty agreements often arise in a multiagent system where autonomous agents interact with each other to achieve a global goal. Multiparty agreements are traditionally represe...
Abstract. Watermarking systems can employ either informed detection, where the original cover work is required, or blind detection, where it is not required. While early systems us...
A technological challenge that distinguishes group support systems (GSS) from many other technologies is the need to accommodate a variety of race conditions. A race condition occ...