XML has become a popular method of data representation both on the web and in databases in recent years. One of the reasons for the popularity of XML has been its ability to encod...
Charu C. Aggarwal, Na Ta, Jianyong Wang, Jianhua F...
"Totally Functional Programming" (TFP) advocates the complete replacement of symbolic representations for data by functions. TFP is motivated by observations from practi...
Array updates in single assignment languages generally require some copying of the array, and thus tend to be more expensive than in imperative languages. As a result, programs in...
Abstract. The Bayesian approach to machine learning amounts to inferring posterior distributions of random variables from a probabilistic model of how the variables are related (th...
Nominal and structural subtyping each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Nominal subtyping allows programmers to explicitly express design intent, and, when types are associa...