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1995
Springer
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Managing inconsistencies in an evolving specification
In an evolving specification, considerable development time and effort is spent handling recurrent inconsistencies. Tools and techniques for detecting and resolving inconsistencie...
Steve M. Easterbrook, Bashar Nuseibeh
SDB
1995
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Semantics of Database Transformations
Database transformations arise in many di erent settings including database integration, evolution of database systems, and implementing user views and data-entry tools. This paper...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Anthony Kosky
FM
1991
Springer
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Formalizing Design Spaces: Implicit Invocation Mechanisms
An important goal of software engineering is to exploit commonalities in system design in order to reduce the complexity of building new systems, support largescale reuse, and pro...
David Garlan, David Notkin
ICML
1994
IEEE
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A Conservation Law for Generalization Performance
Conservation of information (COI) popularized by the no free lunch theorem is a great leveler of search algorithms, showing that on average no search outperforms any other. Yet in ...
Cullen Schaffer
PARLE
1991
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FORK: A High-Level Language for PRAMs
We present a new programming language designed to allow the convenient expression of algorithms for a parallel random access machine (PRAM). The language attempts to satisfy two p...
Torben Hagerup, Arno Schmitt, Helmut Seidl