As software organisations mature, their repositories of reusable software components from previous projects will also grow considerably. Remaining conversant with all components in...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
Abstract. This paper is concerned with the reliable inference of optimal treeapproximations to the dependency structure of an unknown distribution generating data. The traditional ...
This paper presents a variation of the visitor pattern which allows programmers to write visitor-like code in a concise way. The Runabout is a library extension that adds a limited...
It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...