Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Abstract. Probabilistic model checking is a formal verification technique that has been successfully applied to the analysis of systems from a broad range of domains, including sec...
John Heath, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, D...
This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented set of applications, namely "Public Information" and "Electronic Voting", to support information services (ex...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...