Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
Publish/subscribe systems have demonstrated the ability to scale to large numbers of users and high data rates when providing content-based data dissemination services on the Inte...
Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relat...
The prevalent use of the signature-based approach in modern intrusion detection systems (IDS) emphasizes the importance of the efficient management of the employed signature sets....
Fault-tolerant distributed systems based on fieldbuses may benefit to a great extent from the availabilityof semantically rich communication services,such as those provided by g...