In this paper we present a rich decision model for intelligent agents involved in multi issue negotiations. The model, grounded on information theory, takes into account the aspec...
Many software applications produced today have a component, of lesser or greater importance to the structure, that is based on database management systems. What is more, this infor...
We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...
Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
Data warehouses are increasingly supplied with data produced by a large number of distributed sensors in many applications: medicine, military, road traffic, weather forecast, util...