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Abductive inference has long been associated with the logic of scientific discovery and automated abduction is now being used in real scientific tasks. But few methods can exploi...
The massive, ever-growing literature in life science makes it increasingly difficult for individuals to grasp all the information relevant to their interests. Since even experts’...
Abstract. Experiences with the management of Grid specific monitoring and accounting data have shown that current approaches do not sufficiently support a distinction between prov...
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...