Abstract. Consider an “information market” where private and potentially sensitive data are collected, treated as commodity and processed into aggregated information with comme...
In recent years, workflow technology has greatly facilitated business process modeling and reengineering in information systems. On one hand, the separation of an application'...
— Enterprise database systems handle a variety of diverse query workloads that are of different importance to the business. For example, periodic reporting queries are usually mi...
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Information systems outsourcing has been viewed as an attractive option by many senior managers generally because of the belief that IS outsourcing vendors can achieve economies o...