Abstract. Every running thread has its own thread context that consists of values of the fields of the target thread object. To consider the thread context in understanding the be...
These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making rguments over and over again. So began the abs...
The semantics of class-based languages can be defined in terms of objects only [8, 7, 1] if classes are viewed as objects with a constructor method. One obtains a store in which m...
Emerging applications using miniature electronic devices (e.g., tracking mobile objects using sensors) generate very large amounts of highly dynamic data that poses very high overh...
Similarity search and data mining often rely on distance or similarity functions in order to provide meaningful results and semantically meaningful patterns. However, standard dist...
Tobias Emrich, Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Mat...