: The automation manufacturing business has reached its turning point and manufacturers are forced to create new business areas. Their expertise about field devices will be the sou...
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
We consider the following fundamental scheduling problem. The input consists of n jobs to be scheduled on a set of machines of bounded capacities. Each job is associated with a re...
We present a finite representation of all services M where the composition with a given service N is deadlock-free, and a given set of activities of N can be covered (i.e. is not d...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems based on a multidimensional view of data have found widespread use in business applications and are being used increasingly in non-sta...