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SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
ICDT
2009
ACM
125views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
How big must complete XML query languages be?
Marx and de Rijke have shown that the navigational core of the w3c XML query language XPath is not first-order complete ? that is it cannot express every query definable in firsto...
Clemens Ley, Michael Benedikt
ALT
2001
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Learning How to Separate
The main question addressed in the present work is how to find effectively a recursive function separating two sets drawn arbitrarily from a given collection of disjoint sets. I...
Sanjay Jain, Frank Stephan
MSWIM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
How do wireless chains behave?: the impact of MAC interactions
In a Multi-hop Wireless Networks (MHWN), packets are routed between source and destination using a chain of intermediate nodes; chains are a fundamental communication structure in...
Saquib Razak, Vinay Kolar, Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh, K...
P2P
2008
IEEE
137views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical Codes: How to Make Erasure Codes Attractive for Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...
Alessandro Duminuco, Ernst Biersack