Cassandra’s Prophecy between Ecstasy and Rational Mediation

Evaluation of Schema Matching Tasks : Between Prophecy and Hindsight

Security in general and database protection from unauthorized access in particular, are crucial for organizations. Although it has long been accepted that system requirements should be considered from the early stages of the development, non-functional requirements, such as security, tend to be neglected and dealt-with only at the end of the development process. Various methods have been propos...

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

Prophecy and Theater

The paradigms used to examine the Hebrew prophetic literature are changing. This paper contributes to that change by developing a paradigm drawn from Drama Theory and applying that paradigm to the vision reports found in the book of Amos. The outcome is a form critical study that yields beneficial results in understanding both the design and flow of the visions as well as their integration with...

The Prophecy of Undo

Prophecy variables are auxiliary program variables whose values are defined in terms of current program state and future behavior. This paper explains their relevance to reasoning about systems with “undo” operations, and develops techniques that facilitate their use.

Mediation between Service and Network Composition

In todays Internet the network stack is divided into distinct layers which can be implemented by different protocols. Each layer offers a service to directly adjacent layers. Although this crisp and robust design has proven its advantages (functionality scoping, stability) there are also some disadvantages of this architecture. Protocols on different layers implement the same functionality (e.g...