Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Software testing has been commonly used in assuring the quality of database applications. It is often prohibitively expensive to manually write quality tests for complex database ...
Domain-specific languages offer high expressive power foa particular problem domain, abstracting over the accidental complexity associated with traditional software development. ...
As software becomes increasingly complex and difficult to analyze, it is more and more common for developers to use high-level, type-safe, object-oriented (OO) programming langua...
In this paper, we address the tasks of detecting, segmenting, parsing, and matching deformable objects. We use a novel probabilistic object model that we call a hierarchical defor...