Abstract. Profiling is often the method of choice for performance analysis of parallel applications due to its low overhead and easily comprehensible results. However, a disadvanta...
Abstract. Children seem intrinsically motivated to manipulate, to explore, to test, to learn and they look for activities and situations that provide such learning opportunities. I...
Managing cooperation in Business Processes still represents a challenge because of several problems. Concurrent access to common data, coherence of the results, organisation and c...
Abstract. Upgrading the software of long-lived, highly-available distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes...
A popular approach in combinatorial optimization is to model problems as integer linear programs. Ideally, the relaxed linear program would have only integer solutions, which happ...