Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...
Illustrations play a major role in the education process. Whether used to teach a surgical or radiologic procedure, to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, or to explain the fun...
We are developing Virtuoso, a system for distributed computing using virtual machines (VMs). Virtuoso must be able to mix batch and interactive VMs on the same physical hardware, ...
The result of a scene manipulation is usually displayed by rerendering the entire image even if the change has affected only a small portion of it. This paper presents a system th...
The tridimensional structure of a protein is constrained or stabilized by some local interactions between distant residues of the protein, such as disulfide bonds, electrostatic i...