Importance sampling (IS) is the most widely used efficiency improvement method for rare-event simulation. When estimating the probability of a rare event, the IS estimator is the ...
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a traditional deductive safety analysis technique that is applied during the system design stage. However, traditional FTA does not consider transitio...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
Though in most data warehousing applications no relevance is given to the time when events are recorded, some domains call for a different behavior. In particular, whenever late re...
High quality is one of the critical elements contributing to Web service’s success. Monitoring events that are sensitive to quality of Web services is thus an important issue fo...