When applied to real-world problems, the powerful optimization tool of Evolutionary Algorithms frequently turns out to be too time-consuming due to elaborate fitness calculations t...
While empirical evaluations are a common research method in some areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), others still neglect this approach. This article outlines both the opportun...
As XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to exploit...
In a data warehouse (DW) environment, when the operational environment does not posses or does not want to inform the data about the changes that occurred, controls have to be impl...
Rosana L. de B. A. Rocha, Leonardo Figueiredo Card...
We propose test-based pointcuts, a novel pointcut mechanism for AspectJ-like aspect-oriented programming languages. The idea behind the test-based pointcuts is to specify join poi...