The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
A trend in software development is to assemble a system from a number of components. These may be either available commercially off-the-shelf, or by the use of network-based resou...
In order to be able to evaluate beforehand the impact of a strategical or tactical move, decision makers need reliable previsional systems. What-if analysis satisfies this need by ...
The author is revising and restructuring an existing simulation course designed primarily for senior computer science majors by: 1) developing an integrated set of laboratory exer...
Typestate analysis determines whether a program violates a set of finite-state properties. Because the typestate-analysis problem is statically undecidable, researchers have propo...