Database technologies are indispensable for workflow management system, one of the remarkable groupware supporting asynchronous distributed cooperative work. In this paper, a form...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Increasingly, scalable distributed applications are being constructed by integrating reusable components spanning multiple administrative domains. Dynamic composition and deployme...
Modern distributed systems often allow independent development of their components. Successful evolution of such systems depends on the flexibility of component interfaces. This p...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...