Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
In this paper, we investigate the application of the COBRATM method (Cost Estimation, Benchmarking, and Risk Assessment) in a new application domain, the area of web development. ...
Transient faults are single-shot hardware errors caused by high energy particles from space, manufacturing defects, overheating, and other sources. Such faults can be devastating f...
Developers of e-commerce applications are often unrealistic about how their site will be used, and about possible outcomes during site usage. The most commonly considered outcomes...