Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Modern development environments often involve models with complex consistency relations. Some of the relations can be automatically established through "fixing procedures&quo...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...