Using the particular example of online banking services, we examine the effects of pricing strategies on the demand for different modes of online banking given that the market exh...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
A new operating paradigm is still needed for the power industry in order to achieve a workable deregulated market. The two main proposals, namely the Bilateral and the Poolco mode...
In this paper we present Captain Cook, a service that continuously monitors resources in the Internet, and allows clients to locate resources using this information. Captain Cook ...
Multi-site scheduling deals with the scheduling problems of an enterprise with several distributed production sites, where sites are using the intermediate products of other sites...