CSUR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
ks are quite di cult to understand when one rst uses them: the design is very abstract, to factor out commonality the design is incomplete, requiring additional subclasses to creat...
CJ
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
If an object oriented program is a collection of communicating objects, then the objects' protocols de ne the languages the program speaks. Unfortunately, protocols are di cu...
FTCS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
Most RAID controllers implemented in industry are complicated and di cult to reason about. This complexity has led to software and hardware systems that are di cult to debug and h...
AAAI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
FSTTCS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
The ease with which one can copy and transform data on the Web, has made it increasingly di cult to determine the origins of a piece of data. We use the term data provenance to ref...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
SAC
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
The great potential of the World Wide Web is given by its capability of accessing information by navigating via hyper links from one site to another. However, this great potential...
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1998
Springer
Abstract. The general timetabling problem is an assignment of activities to xed time intervals, adhering to a prede ned set of resource availabilities. Timetabling problems are di ...
GECCO
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
In this paper, we apply an evolutionary algorithm to learning behavior on a novel, interesting task to explore the general issue of learning e ective behaviors in a complex enviro...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1999
ACM
Human-quality text summarization systems are di cult to design, and even more di cult to evaluate, in part because documents can di er along several dimensions, such as length, wri...