ML modules provide hierarchical namespace management, as well as fine-grained control over the propagation of type information, but they do not allow modules to be broken up into ...
All object-oriented languages provide support for subtype polymorphism, which allows the writing of generic code that works for families of related types. There is also a need, ho...
Mark Day, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C....
Abstract. There is a huge diversity of definitions of "visually meaningful" image segments, ranging from simple uniformly colored segments, textured segments, through sym...
Abstract. In many domains, classes have highly regular internal structure. For example, so-called business objects often contain boilerplate code for mapping database fields to cl...
Abstract. Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. C...
Stefania Leone, Ela Hunt, Thomas B. Hodel, Michael...