The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, primarily motivated the creation of visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environmen...
Deborah Hix, J. Edward Swan II, Joseph L. Gabbard,...
The Internet, the World Wide Web, JavaTM technology, and software components are changing the software business. Activities traditionally constrained by the need for intense infor...
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...
The object identifier index of an object-oriented database system is typically 20% of the size of the database itself, and for large databases, only a small part of the index fits...
Software architecture descriptions are high-level models of software systems. Some researchers have proposed specialpurpose architectural notations that have a great deal of expre...
Jason E. Robbins, Nenad Medvidovic, David F. Redmi...