Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
We describe a compression technique for semistructured documents, called SCMPPM, which combines the Prediction by Partial Matching technique with Structural Contexts Model (SCM) t...
Predicate detection is an important problem in distributed systems. Based on the temporal interactions of intervals, there exists a rich class of modalities under which global pred...
Abstract. Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give ...
We present the design and rationale of a new statically-typed object-oriented language, LOOM. LOOM retains most of the features of the earlier language PolyTOIL. However the subtyp...