Abstract. We consider the problem of delivering real-time, near realtime and stored streaming media to a large number of asynchronous clients. This problem has been studied in the ...
We consider the scenario where existing relational data is exported as XML. In this context, we look at the problem of translating XML queries into SQL. XML query languages have t...
We provide a framework for reasoning about information-hiding requirements in multiagent systems and for reasoning about anonymity in particular. Our framework employs the modal l...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...
Component-Based Software Engineering, Separation of Concerns, Model-Driven Architecture, and Aspect-Oriented Programming are four active research areas that have been around for s...