The aim of this paper is to find the finest `observable' and `implementable' equivalence on concurrent processes. This is a part of a larger programme to develop a theor...
Many strategies have been proposed to address the problems associated with managing increasingly complex computing systems. IBM's Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigm is one suc...
Starting from a graphical data model (a subset of the OMT object model), a skeleton of formal specification can be generated and completed to express several constraints and provi...
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
The protection of the intellectual investments embodied in databases is of the utmost importance. Technological innovation has rendered databases vulnerable to unauthorised access...