—Towards a data-centric workflow approach, we introduce an artifact model to capture data and workflow management activities in distributed settings. The model is built on Acti...
Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Bourhis, Alban Galland, Bo...
A critical aspect of many simulation studies is the modeling of resources. A general typology, or multidimensional categorization, is proposed for characterizing resources. Such a...
This chapter is about personalization and adaptation in electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications. In the first part, we briefly introduce the challenges posed by e-commerce ...
We present methods for monitoring a large, diverse, and autonomously modified collection of healthcare documents on the Web. Our methods do not require documentproviders to offer...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...