We study the expressiveness and performance of full-text search languages. Our main motivation is to provide a formal basis for comparing such languages and to develop a model for...
Abstract. Web services are increasingly used for building enterprise information systems according to the Service Oriented Architecture (Soa) paradigm. We propose in this paper a t...
Geometric algebra (GA) is a mathematical framework that allows the compact description of geometric relationships and algorithms in many fields of science and engineering. The exe...
Holger Lange, Florian Stock, Andreas Koch, Dietmar...
—Performance Trees are a recently-proposed mechanism for the specification of performance properties and measures. They represent an attractive alternative to stochastic logics,...
Tamas Suto, Jeremy T. Bradley, William J. Knottenb...
As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...