Abstract---Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style to reuse and integrate existing systems for designing new applications. Each application is designed in an ...
Type abstraction and intensional type analysis are features seemingly at odds--type abstraction is intended to guarantee parametricity and representation independence, while type ...
—Supply chain [2], [6] is an important component of business operations. Understanding its stochastic behaviors is the key to risk analysis and performance evaluation in supply c...
Conditional deduction in binary logic basically consists of deriving new statements from an existing set of statements and conditional rules. Modus Ponens, which is the classical e...
Bayesian networks provide a modeling language and associated inference algorithm for stochastic domains. They have been successfully applied in a variety of medium-scale applicati...