Ordering heuristics are a powerful tool in CSP search algorithms. Among the most successful ordering heuristics are heuristics which enforce a fail first strategy by using the mi...
Dual Consistency (DC) is a property of Constraint Networks (CNs) which is equivalent, in its unrestricted form, to Path Consistency (PC). The principle is to perform successive sin...
Timed Automata (TA) and Time Petri Nets (TPN) are two well-established formal models for real-time systems. Recently, a linear transformation of TA to TPNs preserving reachability...
Software maintenance and evolution are inevitable activities since almost all software that is useful and successful stimulates user-generated requests for change and improvements...
Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as ...