Abstract. Monads are a well-established tool for modelling various computational effects. They form the semantic basis of Moggi’s computational metalanguage, the metalanguage of ...
—To enable effective human-agent collaboration, new human-centric computing paradigms are needed. This paper presents a soft constraint representation scheme based on generalized...
The computer systems security arms race between attackers and defenders has largely taken place in the domain of software systems, but as hardware complexity and design processes ...
Matthew Hicks, Murph Finnicum, Samuel T. King, Mil...
Consider an XML view defined over a relational database, and a user query specified over this view. This user XML query is typically processed using the following steps: (a) our t...
Murali Mani, Song Wang, Daniel J. Dougherty, Elke ...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...