Abstract: Optimizations in compilers are the most error-prone phases in the compilation process. Since correct compilers are a vital precondition for software correctness, it is ne...
Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
Abstract. This paper describes how high level implementations of (needed) narrowing into Prolog can be improved by analysing definitional trees. First, we introduce a refined repre...