One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
We built a system for the automatic creation of a textbased topic hierarchy, meant to be used in a geographically defined community. This poses two main problems. First, the appea...
To anticipate or not to anticipate -- that is the question, regarding adaptive middleware in the area of ubiquitous computing. Anticipation can guarantee that both the adapted and...
Abstract. We investigate streaming evaluation of filters on XML documents, evaluated both at the root node and at an arbitrary node. Motivated by applications in protocol processin...
Given a set P of natural numbers, we consider infinite games where the winning condition is a regular -language parametrized by P. In this context, an -word, representing a play, h...