A data warehouse materializes views derived from data that may not reside at the warehouse. Maintaining these views e ciently in response to base updates is di cult, since it may ...
We present a new formal OO method, called FOX, which is a synergetic combination of the semi-formal Fusion method and the formal specification language Object-Z. To manage complex...
We present a typed polymorphic calculus that supports a general mechanism for view definition and object sharing among classes. In this calculus, a class can contain inclusion spe...
ct tasks such as extraction of relational information from text [Young] [Jacobs]. We describe a method for classifying news stories using Alternative systems [Biebricher] [Lewis] u...
A distributed task T is 1-solvable if there exists a protocol that solves it in the presence of (at most) one crash failure. A precise characterization of the 1-solvable tasks was...