This article deals with multidimensional analyses. Analyzed data are designed according to a conceptual model as a constellation of facts and dimensions, which are composed of mul...
Service Oriented Computing is emerging as a reference model for a new class of distributed computing technologies such as Web Services and the Grid. We discuss three main aspects ...
—We describe how to use a timeband architecture to model real-time requirements. The architecture separates requirements that use different time units, producing a family of mode...
Jim Woodcock, Marcel Oliveira, Alan Burns, Kun Wei
The paper presents new developments in an extension of Codd’s relational model of data. The extension consists in equipping domains of attribute values with a similarity relation...
Studying industrial systems by simulation enables the designer to study the dynamic behaviour and to determine some characteristics of the system. Unfortunately, simulation also h...