An efficient use of lexical cohesion is described for ranking text units according to their contribution in defining the meaning of a text (textual saliency), their ability to for...
We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...
Location based services are becoming essential feature of context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Reflective distribute component programming model is proposed to systematicall...
For embedded systems as well as for biological cell systems, design is a feature that defines their identity. The assembly of different components in designs of both systems can ...
Tessa E. Pronk, Simon Polstra, Andy D. Pimentel, T...
Open component architectures, such as CORBA, allow software systems to be composed of independent components. The behavior of components is described with a mixture of an interfac...