Genetic algorithms (GAs) and simulated annealing (SA) are two important search methods that have been used successfully in solving difficult problems such as combinatorial optimization problems. Genetic algorithms are ...

Informed decision making and flexibility have grown to be important standard requirements in the field of business process modeling and design due to the emergence of intrinsically complex variables within the business ...

Intrusion detection research over the last twenty years has focused on the threat of individuals illegally hacking into systems. Nowadays, intrusion threat to computer systems has changed radically. Instead of dealing ...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions provide generic off-the-shelf reference models usually known as "best practices". The configuration !individualization of the reference model to meet specific requirements of ...

As the need for pervasive systems tends to increase and to dominate the computing discipline, software engineering approaches must evolve at a similar pace to facilitate the construction of such systems in an efficient ...

The emerging needs of operators to enhance the users' mobility and to increase their productivity, have raised a need for an architecture that can facilitate the ability of mobile users to conduct business anywhere, anytime, ...

Suspended atmospheric particles (particulate matter) are a form of air pollution that visually degrades urban scenery and is hazardous to human health and the environment. Current environmental monitoring devices are limited ...

Standardization of messaging topologies for communication in recent distributed object computing architectures is becoming more and more inevitable. The emergence of a structured and flexible document model as XML has ...

Scalability imposes itself as a great setback for pervasive computing research. We present a novel approach called Open Spaces that provides users characterized with various mobility patterns with both scalable and intelligent ...

Sentiment classification is an emerging research field. Due to the rich opinionated web content, people and organizations are interested in knowing others' opinions, so they need an automated tool for analyzing and summarizing ...