This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...
Abstract. We present a “memory-model-sensitive” approach to validating correctness properties for multithreaded programs. Our key insight is that by specifying both the inter-t...
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Exploiting the structure of a document allows for more powerful information retrieval techniques. In this article a basic approach is discussed for the retrieval of XML document f...
Location-based applications require a well-formed representation of spatial knowledge. Current location models can be classified into symbolic or geometric models. The former att...