Semantic Web technologies offer the possibility of increased accuracy and completeness in search and retrieval operations. In recent years, curators of data resources have begun f...
Kevin L. Garwood, Phillip W. Lord, Helen Parkinson...
Because of its inter-organisational, collaborative use of computational resources, grid computing presents a severe interoperability challenge to grid application developers. Diffe...
Dirk Gorissen, Gunther Stuer, Kurt Vanmechelen, Ja...
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the tr...
Systems development is replete with projects that represent substantial resource investments but result in systems that fail to meet users’ needs. Evidence-based development is ...
The last years have seen a major interest in designing and deploying trust management and public key infrastructures. Yet, it is still far from clear how one can pass from the orga...
Paolo Giorgini, Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, N...