—Interoperability remains a challenging and growing problem within distributed systems. A range of heterogeneous network and middleware protocols which cannot interact with one a...
Abstract. Combinatorial auctions are an important e-commerce application where bidders can bid on combinations of items. The problem of selecting the best bids that cover all items...
Formal Concept Analysis is based on the occurrence of symbolic attributes in individual objects, or observations. But, when the attribute is numeric, treatment has been awkward. In...
Many of the bugs in distributed software modules are security vulnerabilities, the most common and also the most exploited of which are buffer overflows and they typically arise in...
In semantically rich hypertexts it is attractive to enable presentation of a network of nodes and links at different levels action. It is also important that the user can interact...