Monitoring and management operations that query nodes based on their availability can be extremely useful in a variety of largescale distributed systems containing hundreds to thou...
We propose two extensions to the SQL grant/revoke security model. In SQL, grants are unconditional, so the grantor must simply trust the recipient's discretion. We allow a gr...
We propose an approach (GQM/MEDEA) for defining measures of product attributes in software engineering. The approach is driven by the experimental goals of measurement, expressed v...
Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, Victor R. Basili
Abstract. Knowledge based systems improve information interoperability, integration, and knowledge management. Consequently, there is envisioned a set of the associated business be...
This work shows asymptotic convergence to global optima for a family of dynamically scaled genetic programming systems where the underlying population consists of a fixed number o...