Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
To access data sources on the Web, a crucial step is wrapping, which translates query responses, rendered in textual HTML, back into their relational form. Traditionally, this pro...
Shui-Lung Chuang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, ChengXia...
Abstract— With the increasing popularity of parallel programming environments such as PC clusters, more and more sequential programmers, with little knowledge about parallel arch...
We tackle the problem of data-structure rewriting including global and local pointer redirections. Each basic rewrite step may perform three kinds of actions: (i) Local redirectio...
Point estimates of the parameters in real world models convey valuable information about the actual system. However, parameter comparisons and/or statistical inference requires de...