The description, composition, and execution of even logically simple scientific workflows are often complicated by the need to deal with "messy" issues like heterogeneou...
Yong Zhao, James E. Dobson, Ian T. Foster, Luc Mor...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML ...
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The mining of periodic patterns in time series databases is an interesting data mining problem that can be envisioned as a tool for forecasting and predicting the future behavior o...
Mohamed G. Elfeky, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagar...
Software system faults are often caused by unexpected interactions among components. Yet the size of a test suite required to test all possible combinations of interactions can be...
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The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...