This paper presents the design of a selective-actuation flexure parallel mechanism that can provide three independent translational motions. The mechanism can be used as an ultra p...
As the use of XML is rapidly growing, a growing number of users without programming skills will need to query XML data. Although designed to be easily understood by humans, XQuery...
This work presents the application of theory revision to the design of distributed databases to automatically revise a heuristic-based algorithm (called analysis algorithm) through...
This paper deals with the generation of balanced incomplete block designs (BIBD), a hard constrained combinatorial problem with multiple applications. This problem is here formulat...
This paper presents two empirical usability studies based on techniques from Human-Computer Interaction HCI and software engineering, which were used to elicitate requirements fo...