In current-day software development, programmers often use programming patterns to clarify their intents and to increase the understandability of their programs. Unfortunately, mo...
An indexing model is the heart of an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Data structures such as term based inverted indices have proved to be very effective for IR using vector sp...
— We target the problem of predicting resource usage in situations where the modeling data is scarce, non-stationary, or expensive to obtain. This scenario occurs frequently in c...
The development of large software systems is a typical example for collaborative development efforts. Moreover, software development becomes more and more componentoriented. The s...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...