Although the presence of a schema enables many optimizations for operations on XML documents, recent studies have shown that many XML documents in practice either do not refer to ...
Dynamic object reclassification allows changes to the type of an object at runtime. This paper makes the case for object evolution, a restriction of general reclassification by ...
Active objects offer a structured approach to concurrency, encapsulating both unshared state and a thread of control. For efficient data transfer, data should be passed by referenc...
Abstract. Exceptions are an indispensable part of modern programming languages. They are, however, handled poorly, especially by higherorder languages such as Standard ML and Haske...
— Human beings can perceive object properties such as size, weight, and material type based solely on the sounds that the objects make when an action is performed on them. In ord...