: Utility companies worldwide are facing a multitude of new challenges, which can not be met with the historically grown, monolithic IT systems currently in use. Service oriented a...
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. Efforts are being made in the literature to improve the performance of ROTs without correctness and data currency issues. T...
Abstract. We provide a conceptual analysis of several kinds of deadlines, represented in Temporal Modal Defeasible Logic. The paper presents a typology of deadlines, based on the f...
Abstract. Subsystem based generalizations of rough set approximations are investigated. Instead of using an equivalence relation, an arbitrary binary relation is used to construct ...
Let predicate P be converted from Boolean to numeric type by writing P , with false being 0 and true being 1, so that in a degenerate sense P can be regarded as `the probability th...