Service matchmaking among heterogeneous software agents in the Internet is usually done dynamically and must be efficient. There is an obvious trade-off between the quality and eff...
Katia P. Sycara, Seth Widoff, Matthias Klusch, Jia...
Different classes of information system stakeholders depend on different values to be successful. Understanding stakeholders’ value dependencies is critical for developing softw...
Di Wu, Qi Li, Mei He, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Sup...
We present experience with improving the requirements engineering process for a telecommunications electronic clearinghouse that connects multiple trading partners. Software failu...
Although they have been the main server technology for many years, multiprocessors are undergoing a renaissance due to multi-core chips and the attractive scalability properties of...
The fundamental difference between standard information retrieval and XML retrieval is the unit of retrieval. In traditional IR, the unit of retrieval is fixed: it is the comple...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...