Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
The role that design by contract plays in the specification, monitoring, and reuse of classes is of increasing importance in the OO community. Although recognizably useful, neverth...
Abstract. This paper presents an iterative, highly parallelizable approach to find good tours for very large instances of the Euclidian version of the well-known Traveling Salesma...
Abstract. The Web and Grid services frameworks provide a promising infrastructure for cross-organizational use of online services. The use of services in large-scale and cross-orga...
Henner Gimpel, Heiko Ludwig, Asit Dan, Robert Kear...
Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and upd...