Conventional paging systems do not perform well with large object-oriented environments (such as Smalltalk-801 [GR83]) due to the fine granularity of objects and the persistence o...
The role that design by contract plays in the specification, monitoring, and reuse of classes is of increasing importance in the OO community. Although recognizably useful, neverth...
View materialization is known to be a valuable technique for performance optimization in relational databases, and much work has been done addressing the problem of consistently m...
Although a considerable number of successful frameworks have been developed during the last decade, designing a high-quality framework is still a difficult task. Generally, it is ...
The formal description of the semantics of object-oriented data models is still an open problem. Some characteristic features of object-oriented data models, such as methods and i...