The users of libraries of object-oriented software components face with both a terminological and a cognitive gap. Usually, library users do not understand the vocabulary used in t...
Abstract. One approach to system development is to decompose the requirements into features and specify the individual features before composing them. A major limitation of deferri...
Robin C. Laney, Thein Than Tun, Michael Jackson, B...
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Abstract— Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the potential of significantly enhancing our ability to monitor and interact with our physical environment. Realizing a faulttoler...
Iman Saleh, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Adnan Agbaria, Hes...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...