After more than 20 years of research and practice in software configuration management
(SCM), constructing consistent configurations of versioned software products still remains a …

XML is emerging as one of the dominant data formats for data processing on the Internet. To
query XML data, query languages like XQL, Lorel, XML-QL, or XML-GL have been …

The framework of graph transformation combines the potentials and advantages of both,
graphs and rules, to a single computational paradigm. In this paper we present some recent …

The classical plain-text representation of source code is convenient for programmers but
requires parsing to uncover the deep structure of the program. While sophisticated software …

Abstract Design space exploration (DSE) aims at searching through various models
representing different design candidates to support activities like configuration design of …

Link and graph analysis tools are important devices to boost the richness of information
retrieval systems. Internet and the existing social networking portals are just a couple of …

In recent years, traceability has been globally accepted as being a key success factor of
software development projects. However, the multitude of different, poorly integrated …

Modern generational garbage collectors look for garbage among the young objects,
because they have high mortality; however, these objects include the very youngest objects …

This paper gives a cohesive approach to modeling and implementation with graphs. This
approach uses extended entity relationship (EER) diagrams supplemented with the Z-like …

The development of products in disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, or software
engineering is a challenging task. Costs have to be reduced, the ti-to-market has to be …