In many areas such as e-commerce, mission-critical N-tier applications have grown increasingly complex. They are characterized by non-stationary workloads (e.g., peak load several...
A Web site is a hyperlinked network environment, which consists of hundreds of inter-connected pages, usually without an engineered architecture. This is often a large, complex We...
Time is a crucial variable in planning and often requires special attention since it introduces a specific structure along with additional complexity, especially in the case of dec...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
In this paper, we propose a set of similarity metrics for manipulating collections of values occuring in XML documents. Following the data model presented in TAX algebra, we treat...
Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N....