Many data base applications require the storage and manipulation of different versions of data objects. To satisfy the diverse needs of these applications, current database system...
Design patterns have been widely adopted and well investigated by the software engineering community over the past decade. However, their primary use is still associated with forw...
We describe an object oriented approach to developing an Identity Based Encryption system. We show how an existing API was reused and extended to facilitate our development of the...
The structure of object-oriented systems typically forms a complicated, tangled web of interdependent classes. Understanding this implicit and hidden structure poses severe proble...
This paper aims at integrating techniques of non-monotonic reasoning about updates and of object-oriented specification of information systems. We present how to utilize defaults i...