Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Query optimization in data integration requires source coverage and overlap statistics. Gathering and storing the required statistics presents many challenges, not the least of wh...
We define a hierarchy of term systems Tk by means of restrictions of the recursion schema. We essentially use a pointer technique together with tiering. We prove Tk NCk Tk+1 , for ...
Data in object-oriented programming is organized in a hierarchy of classes. The problem of object-oriented pattern matching is how to explore this hierarchy from the outside. This ...
Abstract. Databases, particularly when storing heterogeneous, sparse semistructured data, tend to provide incomplete information and information which is difficult to categorize. T...
Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Karin Koogan Breit...