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FTDB
2007
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Architecture of a Database System
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industr...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James ...
KER
2006
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Formal systems for persuasion dialogue
This article reviews formal systems that regulate persuasion dialogues. In such dialogues two or more participants aim to resolve a difference of opinion, each trying to persuade ...
Henry Prakken
EOR
2007
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Application of the analytical hierarchy process to establish health care waste management systems that minimise infection risks
This paper focuses on the application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique in the context of sustainable development to establish and optimise health care waste man...
Alan C. Brent, David E. C. Rogers, Tsaletseng S. M...
JUCS
2006
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Time-varying H Systems Revisited
: We cast a new look on time-varying distributed H systems. In their original definition, where only new strings are passed to the next component, this language definition in itsel...
Remco Loos
ENVSOFT
2007
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The implications of complexity for integrated resources management
: Integrated environmental resources management is a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities. ...
C. Pahl-Wostl
ENVSOFT
2007
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Modeling biocomplexity - actors, landscapes and alternative futures
: Increasingly, models (and modelers) are being asked to address the interactions between human influences, ecological processes, and landscape dynamics that impact many diverse as...
John P. Bolte, David W. Hulse, Stanley V. Gregory,...
ENVSOFT
2007
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CREDOS: A Conservation Reserve Evaluation And Design Optimisation System
A number of spatial decision support systems (SDSSs) are already available for the systematic planning of conservation reserves. These existing systems offer varying levels of int...
Neville D. Crossman, Lyall M. Perry, Brett A. Brya...
ENTCS
2007
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Multi Labelled Transition Systems: A Semantic Framework for Nominal Calculi
Action Labelled transition systems (LTS) have proved to be a fundamental model for describing and proving properties of concurrent systems. In this paper,Multiple Labelled Transit...
Rocco De Nicola, Michele Loreti
ENTCS
2007
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Self Management and the Future of Software Design
Most software is fragile: even the slightest error, such as changing a single bit, can make it crash. As software complexity has increased, development techniques have kept pace t...
Peter Van Roy
ENTCS
2007
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An Adaptation-based Approach to Incrementally Build Component Systems
Software components are now widely used in the development of systems. However, incompatibilities between their behavioural interfaces may make their composition impossible. The o...
Pascal Poizat, Gwen Salaün, Massimo Tivoli