Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
Developers using statically typed languages such as C and Java are increasingly having to interoperate with APIs and object models defined in dynamic languages. This impedance mis...
Current real-world software applications typically involve heavy use of relational and XML data and their query languages. Unfortunately object-oriented languages and database que...
Abstract. Cryptographic protocols are useful for engineering trust in transactions. There are several languages for describing these protocols, but these tend to capture the commun...
Seamless integration of digital parts libraries or electronic parts catalogs for e-procurement is impeded by semantic heterogeneity. The utilization of ontologies as metadata desc...