In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Formal modelling, in interactive system design, has received considerably less real use than might have been hoped. Heavy weight formal methods can be expensive to use, with poor c...
ns to define the abstract modelling language that determines the structure of the models that are to be used a two-step meta-modelling approach turned out as most adequate. In the ...
Many claims have been made about the consequences of not documenting design rationale. The general perception is that designers and architects usually do not fully understand the ...
Antony Tang, Muhammad Ali Babar, Ian Gorton, Jun H...
XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...