Connectors have emerged as a powerful concept for composition and coordination of concurrent activities encapsulated as components and services. Compositional coordination models a...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Sun Meng, Young-Joo Moo...
Abstract. We present a framework for designing and composing services in a secure manner. Services can enforce security policies locally, and can invoke other services in a “call...
Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian Luigi F...
One of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it ha...
This paper deals with the CBIR of old printed graphics (of XVI◦ and XVII◦ centuries) like the headpieces, the pictures and the ornamental letters. These graphical parts are pre...
Effective methods for metrics definition are of particular importance, as measurement mechanisms are indispensable in virtually any engineering discipline. The paper describes how ...