As the Extensible Markup Language (XML) rapidly establishes itself as the de facto standard for presenting, storing, and exchanging data on the Internet, large volume of XML data ...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
In this tutorial the specialisation of declarative logic programs is presented. The main correctness results are given, and the outline of a basic algorithm for partial evaluation...
This paper presents, QuickStore, a memory-mapped storage system for persistent C++ built on top of the EXODUS Storage Manager. QuickStore provides fast access to in-memory objects...