Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) systems are platforms capable of collecting trust information about candidate partners and of computing confidence scores for each one of t...
When decomposing database schemas, it is desirable that a decomposition is lossless and dependency preserving. A well-known and frequently used result for the relational model stat...
This paper proposes a real options framework for evaluating architectural choices and the economic value of these alternative choices of networks, protocols, and services. Using p...
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...
We demonstrate MMS, a system for storing and managing a variety of metadata in a simple, elegant and uniform way. The system is based on two observations. First, that the relation...