Many safety-related systems are built from generic software which is customised to work in a particular situation by static configuration data. Examples of such systems are railwa...
A. G. Faulkner, P. A. Bennett, R. H. Pierce, I. H....
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
The window query model is widely used in data stream management systems where the focus of a continuous query is limited to a set of the most recent tuples. In this dissertation, ...
Workflow management systems integrate applications and data resources in business processes. Frequently they have to keep local copies of data in the so called workflow repositor...