The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
Reusing IP-cores to construct system models facilitated by automated generation of glue-logic, and automated composability checks can help designers to create efficient simulation...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Traditional automata accept or reject their input, and are therefore Boolean. In contrast, weighted automata map each word to a value from a semiring over a large domain. The speci...
Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...