A comprehensive text addressing the high demand for network, cloud, and content services through cutting-edge research on data pricing and business strategies Smart Data Pricing tackles the timely issue of surging demand for network, cloud, and content services and corresponding innovations in pricing these services to benefit consumers, operators...

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Model-driven Engineering aims to grease the wheels of complex software creation using first class artifacts called models. A modeler creates effective models, representing useful software artifacts, in a modelling domain. Can we automate effective model discovery in a modelling domain?...

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