Like any other database application object database applications are subject to evolution. Evolution is, however, critical in object databases because it is the very characteristic...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of establishing temporal properties of programs written in languages, such as Java, that make extensive use of the heap to allocate-and d...
Eran Yahav, Thomas W. Reps, Shmuel Sagiv, Reinhard...
We examine the qualitative dynamics of a catalytic self-organizing reaction system of binary strings that is inspired by the chemical information processing metaphor. A string is ...
Schema evolution is an unavoidable consequence of the application development lifecycle. The two primary schemas in an application, the client conceptual object model and the pers...
James F. Terwilliger, Philip A. Bernstein, Adi Unn...
: The evolution of software systems often produces incompatibilities with existing data and applications. To prevent incompatibilities, changes have to be wellplanned, and develope...