We study the problem of information brokerage in sensor networks, where information consumers (sinks, users) search for data acquired by information producers (sources). Innetwork...
In this paper, we examine a supply chain in which a single supplier sells to a downstream retailer. We consider a multi-period model, with the following sequence of events. In per...
This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Reques...
The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...