We address the issue of incorporating domain-specific preferences in planning systems, where a preference may be seen as a "soft" constraint that it is desirable, but no...
Event-B is a formal method for system-level modelling and analysis. Key features of Event-B are the use of set theory as a modelling notation, the use of ent to represent systems a...
Jean-Raymond Abrial, Michael J. Butler, Stefan Hal...
Among the most important expected benefits of a global service oriented architecture leveraging web service standards is an increased level of automation in the discovery, composit...
Sergey A. Stupnikov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko, St&ea...
: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...
Increased complexity of memory systems to ameliorate the gap between the speed of processors and memory has made it increasingly harder for compilers to optimize an arbitrary code...