Business applications are facing an increasing demand for being delivered as on-demand services. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a common way for specifying the exact condition...
Wolfgang Theilmann, Ulrich Winkler, Jens Happe, Il...
UML activity models (activities, for short) have become widely accepted for specifying the dynamic behavior of use cases. For an adequate specification of use cases in the context...
Background subtraction is an essential processing component for many video applications. However, its development has largely been application driven and done in ad hoc manners. I...
As a framework evolves, changes in its Application Programming Interface (API) can break client programs that extend the framework. Repairing a client program can be a challenging...
Dynamic program optimization allows programs to be generated that are highly tuned for a given environment and input data set. Optimization techniques can be applied and re-applie...