After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
This paper investigates the problem of retrieving popular music by singing. In contrast to the retrieval of MIDI music, which is easy to acquire the main melody by the selection of...
Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
Abstract. Many parallel scienti c applications have dynamic and irregular computational structure. However, most such applications exhibit persistence of computational load and com...
Milind A. Bhandarkar, Robert Brunner, Laxmikant V....
Since 1990 the Web has changed from a distributed hypertext system to an efficient environment for application delivery. Due to the legacy of the Web implementation model the deve...
Martin Gaedke, Christian Segor, Hans-Werner Geller...