The two most important models of inferencing in approximate reasoning with fuzzy sets are Zadeh's Compositional Rule of Inference (CRI) and Similarity Based Reasoning (SBR). ...
Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting ...
— Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are contracts signed between a provider and a customer to govern the amount of traffic that will be serviced. This work pinpoints an important ...
In this paper, we describe data support in an information system to support contextual, online negotiation of privacy contracts for e-commerce on the Semantic Web. Context is impo...
In the past decade outsourcing a software system’s support and maintenance has become relatively common across most organizations. In this paper we consider a few issues governi...