Abstract. This paper investigates the complexity of scheduling biprocessor tasks on dedicated processors to minimize mean flow time. Since the general problem is strongly NP-hard,...
Krzysztof Giaro, Marek Kubale, Michal Malafiejski,...
This work addresses a problem of optimal query processing in heterogeneous and distributed multidatabase systems. The objective is to nd a method for opimization of global query p...
Abstract. This paper uses a theory of composition based on existential and universal properties. Universal properties are useful to describe components interactions through shared ...
Our industrial partners have difficulties coping with maintenance and reuse of their software applications, due to the hard coded presence of domain knowledge in the implementation...
This paper reports the results of a workshop held at ECOOP’99. The workshop was set up to find answers to questions fundamental to the definition of a semantics for the Unifie...