Information Systems (IS) have a major impact on human activities. They are not only "objects or products" because they directly concern our access to knowledge, our possi...
A simulation was commissioned to understand the interactions that constrain the capacity of a steel plant. The aim was for this to become a reusable tool that could evaluate the e...
In this paper, a generalized multimedia database data model based on MPEG-7 named G3M is proposed and formally defined. Different from those XML Database Management System (DBMS) ...
Existing approaches on reliability assessment of the system have limitations such as performance entirely depends on expertise, knowledge of system analysts and computation of usa...
Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for representing and managing complex distributed scientific computations and data analysis, and have enabled and acce...