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VL
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Executable Visual Contracts
Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
Marc Lohmann, Stefan Sauer, Gregor Engels
AAAI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Contract Enactment in Virtual Organizations: A Commitment-Based Approach
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Munindar P. Singh
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
170views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Querying contract databases based on temporal behavior
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
Elio Damaggio, Alin Deutsch, Dayou Zhou
EJC
2006
13 years 8 months ago
The topology of the independence complex
We introduce a large self-dual class of simplicial complexes for which we show that each member complex is contractible or homotopy equivalent to a sphere. Examples of complexes i...
Richard Ehrenborg, Gábor Hetyei
CATS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A Linear Time Algorithm for Pricing European Sequential Barrier Options
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
Peng Gao, Ron van der Meyden