Legacy applications are still widely spread. If a need to change deployment or update its functionality arises, it becomes difficult to estimate the performance impact of such modi...
Steffen Becker, Michael Hauck, Mircea Trifu, Klaus...
Large volumes of XML document instances are created by conversion systems that rely on heuristic-based tagging. Quality assurance is typically conducted on individual document ins...
The proliferation of database-driven web sites (or web-databases) has brought upon a plethora of applications where both Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD) are of ...
Software configuration management is one of the first requirements to achieve quality in the software process. However, these activities are very difficult to be introduced, mainl...
Current efficient planners employ an informed search guided by a heuristic function that is quite expensive to compute. Thus, ordering nodes in the search tree becomes a key issue,...