Abstract. Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the omission of t...
Roberto Bagnara, Roberta Gori, Patricia M. Hill, E...
Abstract. The state design pattern is the standard object-oriented programming idiom for implementing the state machine logic of interactive applications. While this pattern provid...
Object oriented programming promotes reuse of classes in multiple contexts. Thus, a class is designed and implemented with several usage scenarios in mind, some of which possibly ...
As part of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative (DLI) project we developed “scalable semantics” technologies. These statistical techniques enabled us to index large collect...
Yi-Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, Bruce R. Scha...
Dynamic loading of code is needed when rarely used code should be loaded on demand or when the code to be loaded is not known in advance. In distributed systems it can also be used...