The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
Recent breakthroughs in communication and software engineering has resulted in significant growth of web-based computing. Web-based techniques have been employed for modeling, sim...
iary models in order to bridge the semantic gap between high-level, abstract user requirements and low-level, concrete programs and to support a stepwise refinement process. This d...
Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
This paper presents two extensions for XQuery. The first extension allows the definition and processing of different kinds of windows over an input sequence; i.e., tumbling, slidi...
Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, D...