Arranging the distribution of data, objects or components is a critical task that can ultimately affect the performance, integrity and reliability of distributed system. This pape...
In this paper, a simulation-based synthesis tool, AMIGO, for analog cell sizing is presented. AMIGO is based upon genetic optimization techniques adapted to circuit sizing. A fram...
The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) provides a standardised framework for object-oriented models. An instance of a MOF model contains objects and links whose interfaces are entirely de...
Learning Objects Metadata describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. Unfortunately, annotating complete courses thoroughly with LOM metad...
We consider the incremental validation of updates on XML documents. When a valid XML document (i.e., one satisfying some constraints) is updated, it has to be verified that the n...