Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
Object motions can be represented as a sequence of shape deformations and translations which can be interpretated as a sequence of points in N-dimensional shape space. These space...
In 1999, Kellogg Company needed to rationalize its area manufacturing capacity. A significant portion of the production was moved between Kellogg manufacturing plants. Simulation ...
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...