: For the past year, we have been assembling requirements from a collection of scientific data base users from astronomy, particle physics, fusion, remote sensing, oceanography, an...
Michael Stonebraker, Jacek Becla, David J. DeWitt,...
The Web has been flooded with highly heterogeneous data sources that freely offer their data to the public. Careful design and compliance to standards is a way to cope with the he...
Sound is touch at a distance. The vibration of pressure waves in the air creates sounds that our ears hear, at close range, these pressure waves may also be felt as vibration. This...
—Formal models are often used to verify systems and prove their correctness, and ensure that transformed models remain consistent to the original system. However, formal techniqu...
Real programming languages are often defined using ambiguous context-free grammars. Some ambiguity is intentional while other ambiguity is accidental. A good grammar development e...