The usage of optimistic version control systems comes along with cumbersome and time-consuming conflict resolution in the case that the modifications of two developers are contrad...
Information networks are ubiquitous in many applications and analysis on such networks has attracted significant attention in the academic communities. One of the most important ...
Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...
Nearly all major commercial computer-aided design systems have adopted a feature-based design approach to solid modeling. Models are created via a sequence of operations which app...
The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...