More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
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...
Abstract. During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems have been developed. Characteristic for knowledge-based systems are a comple...
Pascal van Eck, Joeri Engelfriet, Dieter Fensel, F...
We consider programs for embedded real-time systems which use priority-driven preemptive scheduling with task priorities adjusted dynamically according to the immediate ceiling pr...
Martin D. Schwarz, Helmut Seidl, Vesal Vojdani, Pe...
This paper presents a stochastic model of intonation contours for use in text-to-speech s. The model has two modules, a linguistic module that generates abstract prosodic rom text...