Philosophiam profiteri or on Derrida's "declarative engagement"

Declarative Push on Web

Push technology is an essential component of modern WWW applications. With the ability of sending relevant information to users in reaction to new events, enables highly interactive applications on WWW. What has been present in desktop applications for decades is only now coming online. Actually, the push is usually emulated using the pull technology, since, with the HTTP protocol alone, it is ...

Patient engagement or social media marketing?

Scalability Transformations on Declarative Applications

Many current distributed applications are based on the exchange of XML messages. Scaling such applications to the high processing volume demanded by Internet-scale deployment typically requires costly redesign and coding. In this paper, we investigate how a declarative specification of such applications can simplify the task of deploying them on a large number of host machines. In our model, ap...

Context and Form: Declarative or Interrogative, That Is the Question

Questions in spoken dialogues are often uttered in a declarative form. In more than 50% the question function of these utterances cannot be recognized without contex-tual features. Therefore, a speaker must, at the risk of misunderstanding, have special reasons for using a declarative form instead of an interrogative one. Two experiments were carried out to determine the contextual features tha...

Declarative Modeling-An Academic Dream or the Future for BPM?

Declarative modeling has attracted much attention over the last years, resulting in the development of several academic declarative modeling techniques and tools. The absence of empirical evaluations on their use and usefulness, however, raises the question whether practitioners are attracted to using those techniques. In this paper, we present a study on what practitioners think of declarative...