The CORC experience: survey of founding libraries. Part II

title: The CORC experience: survey of founding libraries. Part I
abstract: This survey, conducted in late 1999, found that CORC founding libraries shared a strong interest in controlling Internet resources and finding ways to catalog such resources quickly. Many cataloged in MARC. Although only a small number of them experimented with Dublin Core, many of them wanted to explore its potential for organizing Internet resources. Other metadata schemes were also used by some libraries. Overall, the founding libraries considered their CORC experience positive, but had several concerns. Their experience suggests that more work is needed to make fast, automated cataloging a reality. Since the findings of this study reflect experience with CORC at the developmental stage, the researchers proposed that CORC usage be monitored to identify trends in organizing Internet resources. A survey of CORC subscribers could be conducted to understand usage patterns and guide CORC’s development and improvement.

title: Aristotle: a system for development of program analysis based tools
abstract: Aristotle provides program analysis information, and supports the development of software engineering tools. Aristotle's front end consists of parsers that gather control flow, local dataflow and symbol table information for procedural language programs. We implemented a parser for C by incorporating analysis routines into the GNU C parser; a C++ parser is being implemented using similar techniques. Aristotle tools use the data provided by the parsers to perform a variety of tasks, such as dataflow and control dependence analysis, dataflow testing, graph construction and graph viewing. Most of Aristotle's components function on single procedures and entire programs. Parsers and tools use database handler routines to store information in, and retrieve it from, a central database. A user interface provides interactive menu-driven access to tools, and users can view results textually or graphically. Many tools can also be invoked directly from applications programs, which facilitates the development of new tools. To assist with system development and maintenance, we are also creating support tools for managing bug and test suite databases.

title: Empirical analysis of the correlation between amount-of-reuse metrics in the C programming language
abstract: Disclosed are the magnesium salts of N-carboxyamino acids, a process for their preparation, and their use of lubricating oil additives.

title: The Physical, Mental, and Emotional Stress Effects of VDT Work
abstract: Are their backs killing them? Do they growl when a supervisor walks by? Something can be done for folks who spend their days in front of VDTs.

title: Mother, May I? OWL-based Policy Management at NASA
abstract: Among the challenges of managing NASA’s information systems is the management (that is, creation, coordination, verification, validation, and enforcement) of many different role-based access control policies and mechanisms. This paper describes an actual data federation use case that demonstrates the inefficiencies created by this challenge and presents an approach to reducing these inefficiencies using OWL. The focus is on the representation of XACML policies in DL, but the approach generalizes to other policy languages.

title: Owlgres: A Scalable OWL Reasoner
abstract: We present Owlgres, a DL-Lite reasoner implementation written for PostgreSQL, a mature open source database. Owlgres is an OWL reasoner that provides consistency checking and conjunctive query services, supports DL-LiteR as well as the OWL sameAs construct, and is not limited to PostgreSQL. We discuss the implementation with special focus on sameAs and the supported subset of the SPARQL language. Emphasis is given to the implemented optimization techniques which resulted in significant performance improvement. Based on a confidential NASA dataset and part of the DBpedia dataset, we show a typical use case for Owlgres, i.e. given a terminology and a dataset, Owlgres provides querying on a persistent knowledge base with reasoning at query time in the expressivity of DL-LiteR.