: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...
Model-driven Architecture (MDA) is a software architecture framework proposed by the Object Management Group OMG. MDA emphasises the importance of modelling in the architectural de...
The boom of Service oriented architecture is on substantial rise. SOA developers orchestrate individual SOA objects into web services. It has been a dream of software engineers to...
The polyhedral model provides powerful abstractions to optimize loop nests with regular accesses. Affine transformations in this model capture a complex sequence of execution-reord...
Model-based development is becoming an increasingly common development methodology. In important domains like embedded systems already major parts of the code are generated from m...