Turbulence is in the nature of business environments. Changes brought about because of different requirements such as social, political, technical and economic, exert pressures on ...
Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
Interactive dynamic influence diagrams (I-DIDs) are graphical models for sequential decision making in uncertain settings shared by other agents. Algorithms for solving I-DIDs fac...
Web Services for CAD (WSC)[8] aims at interoperation with a commercial CAD system based on Web Services. This paper introduces one improvement of WSC which enables remote users to...