The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
Digital Libraries will hold huge amounts of text and other forms of information. For the collections to be maximally useful, they must be highly organized with useful indexes and ...
Robert P. Futrelle, Xiaolan Zhang 0002, Yumiko Sek...
This work expounds the notion that (structured) categories are syntax free presentations of type theories, and shows some of the ideas involved in deriving categorical semantics f...
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
The aim of this paper is to find the finest `observable' and `implementable' equivalence on concurrent processes. This is a part of a larger programme to develop a theor...