Abstract. Flexibility to react on rapidly changing general conditions of the environment has become a key factor for economic success of any company. The competitiveness of an ente...
Bioinformatics research groups require information systems keeping track of experiments and their results. However, current solutions are often ad-hoc, difficult to maintain, exten...
Understanding the performance and dynamic behavior of workflow is crucial in being able to modify, maintain, and improve it. A particularly difficult aspect of measuring the perfor...
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...
A reason to distribute constraint satisfaction is privacy: agents may not want to share their values, and they may wish to keep constraints as private as possible. In this paper, w...