The ability to treat code as data within a programming language is a powerful feature. Smalltalk introduces an object called a block that represents code as data. We propose a for...
This paper proposes a family of replication protocols based on group communication in order to address some of the concerns expressed by database designers regarding existing repl...
Abstract. Revision programming was introduced as a formalism to describe and enforce updates of belief sets and databases. Revision programming was extended by Fitting who assigned...
V. Wiktor Marek, Inna Pivkina, Miroslaw Truszczyns...
Data warehouses are complex systems that have to deliver highly-aggregated, high quality data from heterogeneous sources to decision makers. Due to the dynamic change in the requir...
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Christoph Quix, Matthias Jark...
We apply the concept of network-consciousness to image compression, an approach that does not simply optimize compression, but which optimizes overall performance when compressed i...