Nondeterministic weighted automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions. They define quantitative languages L that assign to each word w a real number L(w). ...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. He...
The XPath language incorporates powerful primitives for formulating queries containing nested subexpressions which are existentially or universally quantified. However, even the b...
We present a technique for refining the design of relational storage for XML data based on XML key propagation. Three algorithms are presented: one checks whether a given function...
Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carmem S. Hara, Jin...
Motivated by the challenging task of designing “secure” vote storage mechanisms, we study information storage mechanisms that operate in extremely hostile environments. In suc...
It is widely accepted that the OO paradigm will signi cantly increase software reusability, extendibility, interoperability, and reliability. This is also true for high assurance ...
David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia, Yasufumi Toyoshima, C...