Improving program locality has become increasingly important on modern computer systems. An effective strategy is to group computations on the same data so that once the data are ...
Web caching keeps single Web objects ready somewhere in caches in the user-to-server path, whereas database caching uses fullfledged database management systems as caches to adapt...
More and more effort is made to provide methodologies for the development of agent–based systems. Awareness has grown that these are necessary to develop high quality agent syst...
Jan Sudeikat, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Win...
Abstract. Integrity constraints play a fundamental role in defining semantics in both conventional databases and in XML documents. In this paper we generalize previous approaches ...
Millist W. Vincent, Michael Schrefl, Jixue Liu, Ch...
Subtyping rules can be fairly complex for union types, due to interactions with other types, such as function types. Furthermore, these interactions turn out to depend on the calc...