In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
ASTRAL is a high-level formal specification language for real-time (infinite state) systems. It is provided with structuring mechanisms that allow one to build modularized specifi...
Abstract State Machines (ASMs) provide a sound mathematical basis for the specification and verification of systems. An application of the ASM methodology to the verification of a ...
Performance models provide significant insight into the performance relationships between an application and the system used for execution. The major obstacle to developing perfor...
Valerie E. Taylor, Xingfu Wu, Jonathan Geisler, Ri...
Spatio-temporal databases have been the focus of considerable research activity over a significant period. However, there are as of yet very few prototypes of complete systems, f...
Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Tony Grif...