A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...
Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
Abstract. We propose a randomized method for general convex optimization problems; namely, the minimization of a linear function over a convex body. The idea is to generate N rando...
Fabrizio Dabbene, P. S. Shcherbakov, Boris T. Poly...
Software modeling has received a lot a of attention in the last decade and now is an important support for the design process. Actually, the design process is very important to the...
Models are increasingly recognized as an effective means for elaborating requirements and exploring designs. For complex systems, model building is far from an easy task. Efforts ...
Christophe Damas, Bernard Lambeau, Axel van Lamswe...