The new market forces have affected the operation of distribution centers (DCs) extremely. The DCs demand an increased productivity and a low cost in their daily operation. This pa...
An XML-to-relational mapping scheme consists of a procedure for shredding XML documents into relational databases, a procedure for publishing databases back as documents, and a se...
Denilson Barbosa, Juliana Freire, Alberto O. Mende...
Schemas evolve over time to accommodate the changes in the information they represent. Such evolution causes invalidation of various artifacts depending on the schemas, such as sc...
Creativity has become a valuable asset, given the fast paced changes most companies must nowadays deal with. Companies now look for creative, highly adaptive individuals who can ex...
Subtyping rules can be fairly complex for union types, due to interactions with other types, such as function types. Furthermore, these interactions turn out to depend on the calc...