Parallel pattern-matching (PPM) provides true commutative implementation of functions defined by cases in functional languages, because no argument is given precedence over any o...
Query optimization is used frequently in relational database management systems. Most existing techniques are based on reordering the relational operators, where the most selective...
Iverson has greatly enlarged the mathematical notion of function composition and made it available to computer programmers. This paper explains the concept, and uses practical exa...
We propose a method for fine grain QoS control of dataflow applications. We assume that the application software is described as the composition of actions (C-functions) with qu...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Thierry Lep...
We develop an approach in which we model communication protocols via commitment machines. Commitment machines supply a content to protocol states and actions in terms of the social...