This paper presents a novel technique for exploring and navigating large hierarchies, not restricted to trees but to directed acyclic graphs (dags). The technique combines two dif...
Abstract. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely on Internet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance le...
In software systems, individual components interact not only through explicit function invocations, but also through implicit resource sharing. The use of shared resources signifi...
New applications of data mining, such as in biology, bioinformatics, or sociology, are faced with large datasets structured as graphs. We present an efficient algorithm for minin...
It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...