: Web Services enable the creation of complex business activities through the cooperation of independently developed software programs. However, Web Services incur the risk of long...
Abstract. The availability of massive amounts of biological data, distributed in various data sources, has prompted the development of a wide range of data analysis tools. However,...
Design process excellence is considered a major differentiating factor between competing enterprises since it determines the constraints within which plant operation and supply ch...
Following from part I, which presents a retrospective on optimization, we focus here on areas that are recent active research topics and are likely to strongly influence the futur...
Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we pr...