Original Tables — Assurances, Joint Lives

Technical Enforcement of Informational Assurances

Dealing with informational assurances we have to consider the full complexity of the information society. In a norrower sense informational assurances comprise informational rights, the related legal and social rules as well as the enforcing technical mechanisms. The right of privacy, understood as informational self-determination, is taken as an important example. Starting from a discussion of...

Assurances of Objectivity

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: Assurances

The important concern for modern software systems is to become more cost-effective, while being versatile, flexible, resilient, dependable, energy-efficient, customisable, configurable and self-optimising when reacting to run-time changes that may occur within the system itself, its environment or requirements. One of the most promising approaches to achieving such properties is to equip softwa...

Survival in Schema Evolution: Putting the Lives of Survivor and Dead Tables in Counterpoint

How can we plan development over an evolving schema? In this paper, we study the history of the schema of eight open source software projects that include relational databases and extract patterns related to the survival or death of their tables. Our findings are mostly summarized by a pattern, which we call ”electrolysis pattern” due to its diagrammatic representation, stating that dead and su...

Can the Sacroiliac Joint Cause Sciatica? An Original Contribution

From *Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, Fort Wayne, IN, and Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, IN, and # Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, IN. Address Correspondence: Joseph D. Fortin, DO, Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, 7230 Engle Road, Suite 210, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. Email: [email protected] Funding: There was no external funding in preparation of this m...