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CSUR
2000
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13 years 11 months ago
A framework for framework documentation
ks are quite di cult to understand when one rst uses them: the design is very abstract, to factor out commonality the design is incomplete, requiring additional subclasses to creat...
Gregory Butler, Rudolf K. Keller, Hafedh Mili
CJ
2000
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13 years 11 months ago
Arguments and Results
If an object oriented program is a collection of communicating objects, then the objects' protocols de ne the languages the program speaks. Unfortunately, protocols are di cu...
James Noble
FTCS
1998
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14 years 24 days ago
Proving Correctness of a Controller Algorithm for the RAID Level 5 System
Most RAID controllers implemented in industry are complicated and di cult to reason about. This complexity has led to software and hardware systems that are di cult to debug and h...
Mandana Vaziri, Nancy A. Lynch, Jeannette M. Wing
AAAI
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Modeling Web Sources for Information Integration
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, José Luis...
FSTTCS
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Data Provenance: Some Basic Issues
The ease with which one can copy and transform data on the Web, has made it increasingly di cult to determine the origins of a piece of data. We use the term data provenance to ref...
Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Wang Chiew Tan
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
ARIADNE: A System for Constructing Mediators for Internet Sources
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
José Luis Ambite, Naveen Ashish, Greg Baris...
SAC
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Enhancing navigation in the World Wide Web
The great potential of the World Wide Web is given by its capability of accessing information by navigating via hyper links from one site to another. However, this great potential...
Massimo Marchiori
AI
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Heuristic Incremental Modeling Approach to Course Timetabling
Abstract. The general timetabling problem is an assignment of activities to xed time intervals, adhering to a prede ned set of resource availabilities. Timetabling problems are di ...
Don Banks, Peter van Beek, Amnon Meisels
GECCO
1999
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Evolution of Goal-Directed Behavior from Limited Information in a Complex Environment
In this paper, we apply an evolutionary algorithm to learning behavior on a novel, interesting task to explore the general issue of learning e ective behaviors in a complex enviro...
Matthew R. Glickman, Katia P. Sycara
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Summarizing Text Documents: Sentence Selection and Evaluation Metrics
Human-quality text summarization systems are di cult to design, and even more di cult to evaluate, in part because documents can di er along several dimensions, such as length, wri...
Jade Goldstein, Mark Kantrowitz, Vibhu O. Mittal, ...