In a competitive environment, companies continuously innovate to offer superior services at lower costs. `Shared services' have been extensively adopted in practice as one me...
Suraya Miskon, Wasana Bandara, Erwin Fielt, Guy G....
There are a lot of applications that run on modern mobile operating systems. Inevitably, some of these applications fail in the hands of users. Diagnosing a failure to identify the...
Sharad Agarwal, Ratul Mahajan, Alice Zheng, Victor...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
Tools for parallel systems today range from specification over debugging to performance analysis and more. Typically, they help the programmers of parallel algorithms from the ea...