Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
three levels of abstraction in system modeling. Computation Independent Model (CIM) corresponds to the system's domain model and is similar to the domain ontology. It does not...
4 Automatic differentiation is the primary means of obtaining analytic5 derivatives from a numerical model given as a computer program. There-6 fore, it is an essential productivi...
Data Warehouses (DW) manage crucial enterprise information used for the decision making process which has to be protected from unauthorized accesses. However, security constraints ...