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VLDB
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
An adaptive RFID middleware for supporting metaphysical data independence
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
MODELS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Semantics of Activity Diagrams with Semantic Variation Points
Abstract. UML activity diagrams have become an established notamodel control and data flow on various levels of abstraction, ranging from fine-grained descriptions of algorithms ...
Hans Grönniger, Dirk Reiss, Bernhard Rumpe
ESAW
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations
Abstract. In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level actness of the organisational concepts an...
Huib Aldewereld, Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, Fr...
AAAI
1992
13 years 11 months ago
The Expected Value of Hierarchical Problem-Solving
est case using an abstraction hierarchy in problem-solving can yield an exponential speed-up in search e ciency. Such a speed-up is predicted by various analytical models develope...
Fahiem Bacchus, Qiang Yang
IANDC
2011
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13 years 4 months ago
On the consistency, expressiveness, and precision of partial modeling formalisms
Partial transition systems support abstract model checking of complex temporal propercombining both over- and under-approximatingabstractions into a single model. Over the years, ...
Ou Wei, Arie Gurfinkel, Marsha Chechik