This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be use...
Data Stream Management (DSM) addresses the continuous processing of sensor data. DSM requires the combination of stream operators, which may run on different distributed devices, ...
Gert Brettlecker, Heiko Schuldt, Peter M. Fischer,...
Many binary tools, such as disassemblers, dynamiccode generation systems, and executable code rewriters, need to understand how machine instructions are encoded. Unfortunately, sp...
The draft ofthe SQL/PSM standard denes a procedural extension to the existing SQL2 language. An essential part of this extension is the support of procedural constructs such as B...