Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
This paper describes the software package DSPNexpress 2000, a tool for the quantitative evaluation of systems specified in stochastic Petri nets, the Unified Modeling Language (UM...
Abstract. Reference process models capture recurrent business operations in a given domain such as procurement or logistics. These models are intended to be configured to fit the r...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Florian Got...
People often use software for mundane tasks and expect it to be dependable enough for their needs. Unfortunately, the incomplete and imprecise specifications of such everyday sof...
Orna Raz, Rebecca B. Buchheit, Mary Shaw, Philip K...
Abstract. Many long-lived and distributed systems must remain available yet evolve over time, due to, e.g., bugfixes, feature extensions, or changing user requirements. To facilit...