Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
An ontology alignment is the expression of relations between different ontologies. In order to view alignments independently from the language expressing ontologies and from the te...
PRISMA/DB is implementedin a parallelobject-orientedlanguage to gain insight in the usage of parallelism. This environment allows us to experiment with parallelism by simply chang...
Annita N. Wilschut, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Peter M....
The decomposition of design patterns into simpler elements may reduce significantly the creation of variants in forward engineering, while it increases the possibility of identify...
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...