Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
Weighted automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions. Nondeterministic weighted automata define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real ...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. He...
Many access control policy languages, e.g., XACML, allow a policy to contain multiple sub-policies, and the result of the policy on a request is determined by combining the result...
Ninghui Li, Qihua Wang, Wahbeh H. Qardaji, Elisa B...
In the AOSE (Agent-Oriented Software Engineering) area, several research efforts are underway to develop appropriate meta-models for agent-oriented methodologies. Meta-models are ...
This article describes the integration of knowledge based techniques into simulative Virtual Reality (VR) applications. The approach is motivated ltimodal Virtual Construction as a...
Marc Erich Latoschik, Peter Biermann, Ipke Wachsmu...