Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...
Many algorithms developed in computational geometry are needlessly complicated and slow because they have to be prepared for very complicated, hypothetical inputs. To avoid this, ...
Mark de Berg, Matthew J. Katz, A. Frank van der St...
Linear equality and inequality constraints arise naturally in specifying many aspects of user interfaces, such as requiring that one window be to the left of another, requiring th...
Alan Borning, Kim Marriott, Peter J. Stuckey, Yi X...
Abstract. This paper describes the development of two kinds of atomic action schemes for Ada 95. We start by discussing the basic features required of an atomic action scheme and w...
Alexander B. Romanovsky, Stuart E. Mitchell, Andy ...