Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging from airport and supermarket waiting lines to comp...
There has been a recent effort in the literature to reconsider grammar-dependent software development from an engineering point of view. As part of that effort, we examine a defic...
Recent work in Ontology learning and Text mining has mainly focused on engineering methods to solve practical problem. In this thesis, we investigate methods that can substantially...
Many researchers throughout the world have been struggling to better understand and describe Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). Our knowledge of the real forces and mechanisms b...
With the increasing popularity of COTS (commercial off the shelf) components and multi-core processor in space and aviation applications, software fault tolerance becomes attracti...