Many object-oriented software applications contain implicit business rules. Although there exist many approaches that advocate the separation of rules, the rules' connections ...
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
The OSGiTM Service Platform is becoming the de facto standard for modularized Java applications. The market of OSGi based COTS components is continuously growing. OSGi specific pro...
A set of rules to ascertain that in calls of the form x.f (...) there will always be an object attached to x. 1 PURPOSE The theory developed in this article investigates void call...
MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the ...