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ER
2006
Springer
169views Database» more  ER 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Pierre-Yves...
VISSYM
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Isosurface Computation Made Simple
This paper presents a simple approach for rendering isosurfaces of a scalar field. Using the vertex programming capability of commodity graphics cards, we transfer the cost of com...
Valerio Pascucci
ICDE
2010
IEEE
568views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 6 months ago
Reverse Top-k Queries
Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
FM
2009
Springer
134views Formal Methods» more  FM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Partial Order Reductions Using Compositional Confluence Detection
Abstract. Explicit state methods have proven useful in verifying safetycritical systems containing concurrent processes that run asynchronously and communicate. Such methods consis...
Frédéric Lang, Radu Mateescu
ICDE
2010
IEEE
434views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
Progressive Result Generation for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Venkatesh Raghavan