This paper gives a mathematical specification the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode verifier. The specification is an axiomatic description of the verifier that makes precise su...
As experimental digital library testbeds gain wider acceptance and develop significant user bases, it becomes important to investigate the ways in which users interact with the sys...
Java is a popular, object oriented language that is runtime type safe. As such, it has been seen as an attractive basis for the implementation of orthogonally persistent systems b...
With the widespread use of full-text information retrieval, passage-retrieval techniques are becoming increasingly popular. Larger texts can then be replaced by important text exc...
Gerard Salton, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, Mandar...
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...