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ICRA
1999
IEEE
109views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
15 years 11 months ago
Self-Reconfiguration Planning with Compressible Unit Modules
We discuss a robotic system composed of Crystalline modules. Crystaline modules can aggregate together to form distributed robot systems. Crystalline modules can move relative to ...
Daniela Rus, Marsette Vona
206
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IWFM
2000
162views Formal Methods» more  IWFM 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Modal Logics for Reasoning about Object-based Component Composition
Component-oriented development of software supports the adaptability and maintainability of large systems, in particular if requirements change over time and parts of a system hav...
Claus Pahl
347
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ICDE
2008
IEEE
215views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
16 years 8 months ago
Fast and Simple Relational Processing of Uncertain Data
This paper introduces U-relations, a succinct and purely relational representation system for uncertain databases. U-relations support attribute-level uncertainty using vertical pa...
Lyublena Antova, Thomas Jansen, Christoph Koch, Da...
260
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Stretch 'n' shrink: resizing queries to user preferences
We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
173
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EDBT
2006
ACM
106views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Online, Non-blocking Relational Schema Changes
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
Jørgen Løland, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd