New technologies used in biology are generating huge quantities of data; up to two petabytes of overall data are to be expected by the end of the decade. Modern biology also has t...
Being the de-facto standard (object-oriented-OO) method(-logy) for software-intensive systems development, UML with its different diagrams and supporting tools represent nowadays t...
Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...
Automatic Grid resource discovery and brokerage shields the Grid middleware complexities from the Grid users and leads towards an invisible but simple and robust Grid. Realizing th...
Abstract. We investigate the computational complexity of reasoning over various fragments of the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) language, which includes a number of constructs:...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...