Abstract. In many domains, classes have highly regular internal structure. For example, so-called business objects often contain boilerplate code for mapping database fields to cl...
We investigate the task of compressing an image by using different probability models for compressing different regions of the image. In an earlier paper, we introduced a class of...
Abstract. Digital Signatures emerge naturally from Public-Key Encryption based on trapdoor permutations, and the “duality” of the two primitives was noted as early as Diffie-He...
During software engineering processes lots of artifacts are produced to document the development of a concrete software. For artifacts which are related with respect to their meani...
Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...