Practical Strategies for Supporting Contract Workers

Practical Strategies for Treating

Introduction Mastitis is the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cattle. Losses due to mastitis occur for both subclinical and clinical disease. Losses caused by clinical mastitis are often apparent and consist of discarded milk, transient reductions in milk yield and premature culling (Fetrow, 2000). Perceived financial losses for clinical mastitis vary widely. In 2002-2003, farmers part...

Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Educators

Contracts for Java: A Practical Framework for Contract Programming

This report introduces Contracts for Java (Cofoja), a new framework for contract programming in Java, and the successor to Johannes Rieken’s Modern Jass. Based on the same standard Java technologies such as annotation processing and bytecode instrumentation, it improves upon the stub-based separate compilation strategy of its predecessor. Contracts for Java promotes a minimalistic yet expressiv...

Supporting Contract Execution through Recommended Workflows

This paper extends our previous research on e-contracts by investigating the problem of deriving business process specifications from business contracts. The aim here is to reduce the risk of behaviour leading to contract violations by encouraging the parties to a contract to follow execution paths that satisfy the policies in the contract. Our current contract monitoring prototype provides run...

Supporting Design by Contract in Java

Design by Contract is a valuable design method for trusted software components. Eiffel shows how to provide appropriate language support for it. However, no such concepts currently exist in Java. Full integration of them into Java may help to improve and guarantee the quality of Java classes. We briefly compare several approaches to extend Java in this way and present our model and a compiler t...