Though in most data warehousing applications no relevance is given to the time when events are recorded, some domains call for a different behavior. In particular, whenever late re...
Parallel performance tuning naturally involves a diagnosis process to locate and explain sources of program inefficiency. Proposed is an approach that exploits parallel computation...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...
We present a new way to define the semantics of imperative synchronous languages by means of separating the control and the data flow. The control flow is defined by predicates th...
Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...