In this paper, we present a complete analysis of redundant relationships in the entity-relationship model. Existing approaches use the concept of functional dependencies for ident...
The testing of the performance of opportunistic communication protocols and applications is usually done through simulation as i) deployments are expensive and should be left to t...
Roberta Calegari, Mirco Musolesi, Franco Raimondi,...
Software systems have to be changed continuously and evolutionarily throughout the whole time of their development and usage. Meanwhile, the software systems have to remain flexi...
Abstract. Termination poses one of the main challenges for mechanically verifying infinite state systems. In this paper, we develop a powerful and extensible framework based on th...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...