A requirements analysis in the emerging field of Semantic Web Services (SWS) (see http://daml.org/services/swsl/requirements/) has identified four major areas of research: intelli...
Transient faults are single-shot hardware errors caused by high energy particles from space, manufacturing defects, overheating, and other sources. Such faults can be devastating f...
Today, result sets of skyline queries are unmanageable due to their exponential growth with the number of query predicates. In this paper we discuss the incremental re-computation ...
Alice holds a secret integer a while Bob holds a secret integer b, they want to decide on the predicate a > b with no information revealed other than the result. This is the we...
Abstract. The formal development of industrial-size software is an errorprone and therefore an evolutionary process. Verifying formal specifications usually reveals hidden errors ...