We define an optimal class association rule set to be the minimum rule set with the same predictive power of the complete class association rule set. Using this rule set instead o...
In a state-of-the-art XML database, an XML query is evaluated as a sequence of structural joins in which positions of data nodes are used to perform each individual structural joi...
In Java the de nition of a \program" is a bit fuzzy. A Java applet is essentially a Java application (i.e. program) that can be executed by a Java enabled Web browser (i.e. a...
Class sharing is a new language mechanism for building extensible software systems. Recent work has separately explored two different kinds of extensibility: first, family inherit...
We present MJ: a language for specifying general classes whose members are produced by iterating over members of other classes. We call this technique “class morphing” or just ...