Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a well-known method to measure the functionality of a system, from the user’s point of view. Both Albrecht’s original model and a local varian...
Abstract- String matching problem received much attention over the years due to its importance in various applications such as text/file comparison, DNA sequencing, search engines,...
A subtyping 0 is entailed by a set of subtyping constraints C, written C j= 0, if every valuation (mapping of type variables to ground types) that satisfies C also satisfies 0. ...
Non-uniform query languages make searching over heterogeneous information sources difficult. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end lang...
The performance of current transaction processing systems largely depends on human experts for administration and tuning. These experts have to specify a multitude of internal con...