Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Enterprises increasingly demand IT support for the coordination of their engineering processes, which often consist of hundreds up to thousands of sub-processes. From a technical ...
Abstract--Component-based development focuses on compose and composition: abstract components (as wished) must be searched for and matched to existing component (as found). This se...
Full formal descriptions of algorithms making use of quantum principles must take into account both quantum and classical computing components and assemble them so that they commu...
This paper has two parts. First, we propose a method which can be used to decompose a geometric constraint graph into a c-tree. With this decomposition, solving for a well-constrai...