Most software applications use a relational database for data management and storage. Interaction with such a database is often done by letting the program construct strings with ...
With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the Internet and its stringent performance requirements, network system designers have begun utilizing specialized chips to increase the ...
In recent years, there has been great interest in scenario-based design and other forms of user-centred design. However, there are many design processes that, often for good reaso...
Ann Blandford, Suzette Keith, Richard Butterworth,...
Aging effects, environmental changes, thermal drifts, and soft and hard faults affect physical systems by changing their nature and behavior over time. To cope with a process evolu...
Methods for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOP) have emerged as key techniques for distributed reasoning. Yet, their application faces significant hurdles...