A parallel version of the plane sweep algorithm targeted towards the small number of processing cores available on commonly available multi-core systems is presented. Experimental...
This note describes a sample implementation of automated negotiations in an e-commerce modeling multi-agent system. A specific set of rules is used for enforcing negotiation mech...
This position paper describes an approach to predict the performances of a Web application already in the early stages of application development. It leverages the wealth of inform...
New applications and standards are first conceived only for functional correctness and without concerns for the target architecture. The next challenge is to map them onto an arch...
Workflow is the key technology for business process automation, while distributed workflow is the solution to deal with the decentralized nature of workflow applications and the pe...