Design-for-testability is a very important issue in software engineering. It becomes crucial in the case of OO designs where control flows are generally not hierarchical, but are d...
— While planning the execution of report-generation workloads, database administrators often need to know how long different query workloads will take to run. Database systems ru...
: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
In this paper, we describe a framework to program open societies of concurrently operating agents. The agents maintain a subjective theory about their environment and interact with...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
: This paper presents a genetic algorithm based approach for algebraic optimization of behavioral system specifications. We introduce a chromosomal representation of data-flow gr...