We briefly introduce the notion of Semantically Enhanced Library Languages, SELL, as a practical and economical alternative to special-purpose programming languages for high-perfo...
A common requirement of many scientific applications is the ability to process queries involving expensive predicates corresponding to user programs. Optimizing such queries is ha...
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
Continuations, or ’the rest of the computation’, are a concept that is most often used in the context of functional and dynamic programming languages. Implementations of such ...
We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...