We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Abstract. Today's manufacturing industry demands flexible and decentralized production control systems to avoid hours of down time of the production line in case of a failure ...
Abstract. Object invariants describe the consistency of object-oriented data structures and are central to reasoning about the correctness of object-oriented software. Yet, reasoni...
In order to enable knowledge sharing and reuse among software entities, artificial intelligence researchers have proposed to develop ‘ontologies’ as the explicit formal specifi...
Felix-Robinson Aschoff, Franz Schmalhofer, Ludger ...
Security concerns on embedded devices like cellular phones make Java an extremely attractive technology for providing third-party and user-downloadable functionality. However, gar...