Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
After an initial peak, the number of synapses in mammalian cerebral cortex decreases in the formative period and throughout adult life. However, if synapses are taken to reflect ci...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Many architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposed to model, analyze, configure, and deploy complex software systems. To face this diversity, extensible ADLs (or AD...
Abstract. The analysis of usability aspects of multi-user systems, such as cooperative work systems and pervasive systems, pose particular problems because group behavior of their ...
Mieke Massink, Diego Latella, Maurice H. ter Beek,...