While usability methods such as user studies and inspections can reveal a wide range of problems, they do so for only a subset of an application’s features and states. We presen...
We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
We investigate some approaches to solving nonconvex global optimization problems by convex nonlinear programming methods. We assume that the problem becomes convex when selected va...