With the rise of XML as a standard for representing business data, XML data warehouses appear as suitable solutions for Web-based decision-support applications. In this context, i...
Programmers rely on the correctness of the tools in their programming environments. In the past, semanticists have studied the correctness of compilers and compiler analyses, which...
An important aspect in the design of hardware/software systems is design-for-test. Improving the testability of a hardware/software system typically implies improving the controll...
The Common Algebraic Specification Language Casl is an expressive language for the formal specification of functional requirements and modular design of software. It has been desi...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...