Under current U.S. law and common understanding, the fundamental right granted by copyright is the right of reproduction – of making copies. Indeed, the very word “copyright”...
Large collections of documents containing various types of multimedia, are made available to the WWW. Unfortunately, due to the un-structuredness of Internet environments it is ha...
Abstract. Ahardware and software environment with performance above 1 Tera ops (teracomputing) is presently required to face the leading computational challenges not only in fundam...
Well understood methods exist for developing programs from formal specifications. Not only do such methods offer a precise check that certain sorts of deviations from their specifi...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...