In an object oriented, distributed environment, program maintenance, which has never been the most predictable task, becomes even more uncertain. Java's dynamic loading mecha...
We introduce a new performance metric, called Load Balancing Factor (LBF), to assist programmers with evaluating different tuning alternatives. The LBF metric differs from traditi...
Runtime verification of multithreaded systems, that is, the process of finding errors in multithreaded systems as they execute, is the theme of this paper. The major goal of the...
Background: The identification of drug characteristics is a clinically important task, but it requires much expert knowledge and consumes substantial resources. We have developed ...
Frank P. Y. Lin, Stephen Anthony, Thomas M. Polase...
In this paper we describe a novel technique which implements a spatiotemporal model as a set of sub-models based on first order logic. These sub-models model different, typicall...