—Software reuse through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is an integral part of software development. The functionality offered by an API is not always accessed uniforml...
We describe in this article an abductive procedure based on a constrained resolution principle. The choice of constrained resolution is motivated by the whish to gain full advanta...
—Past research on temporal databases has primarily focused on state-based representations and on relational query language extensions for such representations. This led to many d...
A “data-aware” web service property is a constraint on the pattern of message exchanges of a workflow where the order of messages and their data content are interdependent. Th...
This paper presents an XML-based approach to implementing the parametric model of temporal databases. In the parametric model, attribute values are functions of time and the entir...