In this paper, we present techniques and algorithms to improve the performance of various communication patterns on message-passing platforms where, for reasons of safety, user-le...
Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondary storage? How should database systems adapt to this new form of secondary storage? Before we can answer t...
In this paper, we describe an ontology-driven pattern disambiguation process for Rote Extractors. Our approach can generate lexical patterns for a particular relation from unrestr...
We show how the formal description language LOTOS can be used to de ne software architectures and how patterns over LOTOS can serve to characterize architectural styles. We charact...
Rule-based systems employed to model complex object behaviours, do not necessarily provide a realistic portrayal of true behaviour. To capture the real characteristics in a specif...