One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
Cost-effective engineering and evolution of complex software must involve the different stakeholders concurrently and collaboratively. The hard problem is providing computer suppo...
All object-oriented languages provide support for subtype polymorphism, which allows the writing of generic code that works for families of related types. There is also a need, ho...
Mark Day, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C....
Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...
Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...