Algorithms for composing Web services (WS) traditionally utilize the functional and quality-of-service parameters of candidate services to decide which services to include in the ...
Probabilistic logics have attracted a great deal of attention during the past few years. While logical languages have taken a central position in research on knowledge representati...
Arjen Hommersom, Nivea de Carvalho Ferreira, Peter...
A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...
Thisposition statementarguesthat advanced,systematic modelingtechniquesare neededto support engineering of complex, heterogeneoussystems. Models provide blueprintsfor thedevelopme...
Large and complex computer based systems are the result of an evolution process which may take many years. Heterogeneity is an important characteristic of such systems: During the...