In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...
Currently negotiation covers a huge and unstructured domain of negotiation- and coordination protocols and associated strategies. Researchers and practitioners like system enginee...
Association rule mining in real-time is of increasing thrust in many business applications. Applications such as e-commerce, recommender systems, supply-chain management and group...
Contracting out government services, especially IT services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Based on literature in privatization and contracting out, the au...
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...