In this paper, we present methods for supporting autonomous updates in replicated databases. Autonomous updates are of particular importance to applications that cannot tolerate t...
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Kel...
This paper advocates a rigorously formal and compositional style for obtaining key performance and/or interface metrics of systems with real-time constraints. We propose a hierarc...
Alena Simalatsar, Yusi Ramadian, Kai Lampka, Simon...
Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are becoming increasingly popular as part of a requirements specification. Scenarios describe how system compo...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
The Drosophila gene expression pattern images document the spatial and temporal dynamics of gene expression and they are valuable tools for explicating the gene functions, interac...
Shuiwang Ji, Lei Yuan, Ying-Xin Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou, ...