An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
We introduce the class of Rigid Tree Automata (RTA), an extension of standard bottom-up automata on ranked trees with distinguished states called rigid. Rigid states define a rest...
Within a large, object-oriented software system it is common to partition the classes into a set of packages, which implicitly serve as a set of coarsely-grained logical design un...
Abstract. Group comparison per se is a fundamental task in many scientific endeavours but is also the basis of any classifier. Contrast sets and emerging patterns contrast betwee...
Camera phones present new opportunities and challenges for mobile informationassociation and retrieval. The visual input in the real environment is a new and rich interaction moda...