The general goal of data mining is to extract interesting correlated information from large collection of data. A key computationally-intensive subproblem of data mining involves ...
In this article we present the University of Evora's Integrated Information System (SIIUE), which is meant to model most of the information necessary for the management and da...
Most object-oriented languages offer a limited number of invocation semantics. At best, they define a default mode of synchronous invocation, plus some keywords to express addition...
We are concerned with the design of programming languages that support the paradigm of component-oriented programming. Languages based on the accepted idea of combining modular and...
The principle of modularisation is one of the main techniques that software designers use to tame the complexity of programming. A software project, however, is complex in many oth...
A namespace is a mapping from labels to values. Most programming languages support different forms of namespaces, such as records, dictionaries, objects, environments, packages and...
: Open-cards have introduced a new life cycle for smart card embedded applications. In the case of Java Card, they have raised the problem of embedded object-oriented applet valida...