Hi Gene:

here are my ideas for an EMC collaboration (Documentum).

-- Karl

They need queries and XSLT transformations that are robust
under DTD or schema changes, drastically improving the flexibility of 
Documentum products.

Related publication:
@article{973102,
author = {Karl Lieberherr and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Doug Orleans},
title = {Traversals of object structures: Specification and Efficient Implementation},
journal = {ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.},
volume = {26},
number = {2},
year = {2004},
issn = {0164-0925},
pages = {370--412},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/973097.973102},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}

The research would help them to make their products
related to document navigation faster and
more flexible.

We have a patent on this topic that would be useful for them to license:

AUTHOR = "Karl J. Lieberherr and Jens Palsberg and Boaz Patt-Shamir",
TITLE = "AUTOMATA-THEORETIC APPROACH COMPILER FOR ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE",
INSTITUTION = "Northeastern University",
YEAR = 1999,
NOTE = "U.S. patent No. 5,946,490"