Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, an...
We argue that efficient support for schema validation and type annotation in XQuery processors deserves as much attention as efficient evaluation techniques for XPath queries have...
Component adaptation is widely recognised to be one of the crucial problems in Component-Based Software Engineering. The objective of this paper is to set a formal foundation for t...
Combinatorial auctions, where agents can bid on bundles of items (resources, tasks, etc.), are desirable because the agents can express complementarity and substitutability among ...
Economies of scale and advancements in wide-area wireless networking are leading to the availability of more small, networked mobile devices, placing higher stress on existing mob...
Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Anthony D. Joseph, John K...