An application generator has resulted from the authors' efforts to improve the development of interactive database applications. The developed tool is based on a meta-base. T...
We show how to implement a calculus with higher-order subtyping and subkinding by replacing uses of implicit subsumption with explicit coercions. To ensure this can be done, a pol...
The soundness of device drivers generally cannot be verified in isolation, but has to take into account the reactions of the hardware devices. In critical embedded systems, interf...
Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...
Text mining concerns applying data mining techniques to unstructured text. Information extraction (IE) is a form of shallow text understanding that locates specific pieces of data...