— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
In the present work we describe architectural concepts of the distributed molecular simulation package GridMD. The main purpose of this work is to underline the construction patter...
This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...