In this paper we introduce a workflow management system, called WebFlow, which is based on the world wide web and Java as its basic technologies. Java is used as the build time (m...
Abstract. In open scenarios, agents willing to cooperate must impact the communication barrier between them and their unknown partners. If agents are not relying on any agreement a...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Savino Sguera, Armando Stel...
Abstract One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as autonomous entities but rather as supply chain...
Areti Manataki, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Michael Rovat...
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Coordinating a group of robots to work in formation has been suggested for a number of tasks, such as urban searchand-rescue, traffic control, and harvesting solar energy. Algorit...