Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by ContractTM , applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a...
XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...
Traditionally computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms are evaluated by measuring differences between final interpretations and ground truth. These black-box evaluations ...
Richard Zanibbi, Dorothea Blostein, James R. Cordy
The grid vision of a single computing utility has yet to materialize: while many grids with thousands of processors each exist, most work in isolation. An important obstacle for t...
Alexandru Iosup, Todd Tannenbaum, Matthew Farrelle...
This paper will describe an approach to the development of computer simulations - the 'four phase' approach - which aims to be more accessible than established approache...