Java is a popular, object oriented language that is runtime type safe. As such, it has been seen as an attractive basis for the implementation of orthogonally persistent systems b...
We present the design and implementation of a new programming language for media-intensive applications called Flavor (Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation). It ...
We present an improved data model that reflects the whole VLSI design process including bottom-up and topdown design phases. The kernel of the model is a static version concept th...
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...
Within the last years, especially since the work proposed by Dung in 1995, argumentation has emerged as a central issue in Artificial Intelligence. With the so called argumentatio...