—Object-oriented software quality models usually use metrics of classes and of relationships among classes to assess the quality of systems. However, software quality does not de...
—The widespread deployment of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) in law enforcement and border control applications has heightened the need for ensuring that the...
partners are abstracted as Web services, we have introduced additional constructs to represent human users and define human interaction patterns. Each business process defined in o...
Networks often form the core of many users’ spatial databases. Networks are used to support the rapid navigation and analysis of linearly connected data such as that found in tra...
—Constraints are an important part of role-based access control policies. The safety or security of a system is maintained by enforcing constraints that are specified in the pol...