enterprise architecture (ea) is a discipline for understanding, engineering, and managing different components of an enterprise and their interrelationships. moreover, because the risk and impact of ea are pervasive across the enterprise, it is critical to perform an architecture assessment before making any decision about choosing a scenario. this paper provides an approach based on fuzzy anal...

The growing interest in Electronic Commerce practices has lead to a wide variety of models trying to capture the subtleties and complexities of the electronic marketplace. In this paper, we discuss a model based on trading communities, virtual business processes and virtual enterprises. These concepts are at the heart of the WISE (Workkow based Internet SErvices) project, where we have used the...

This work proposes innovative permutation-based procedures controlling the Familywise Error rate (FWE). It is proofed that weighted procedures control the FWE if weights are a function of the sufficient statistic. Particularly, we focus on the use of the additional information given by the total variance of each variables. The first proposal considers the use of weights applied to the combining...

The Internet is quickly evolving towards the wireless Internet that will be based upon wirelines and devices from the traditional Internet, and will reuse some of its techniques and protocols. However, the wireless Internet will not be a simple add-on to the wireline Internet. From the technical point of view, new challenging problems arise from the handling of mobility, handsets with reduced s...

We propose the B c → B * u γ decay as the most suitable probe for the flavour changing neutral transition c → uγ. We estimate the short and long distance contributions to this decay within the standard model and we find them to be comparable; this is in contrast to radia-tive decays of D mesons, that are completely dominated by the long distance contributions. Since the c → uγ transition is ver...

In this article, we describe an approximate dynamic programming (ADP) approach to compute lower bounds on the optimal value function for a discrete time, continuous space, and infinite horizon setting. The iteratively constructs family of bounding functions by using so-called Bellman inequality. novelty our is that, at each iteration, aim that maximizes point-wise maximum taken with computed th...

In this paper, we propose a patch-wise learning based approach to deal with the multiple-shot people re-identification task. In the proposed approach, re-identification is formulated as a patch-wise set-toset matching problem, with each patch set being matched using a specifically learned Mahalanobis distance metric. The proposed approach has two advantages: (1) a patch-wise representation that...