Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the backgr...
Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a st...
System and processor architectures depend on changes in technology. Looking ahead as die density and speed increase, power consumption and on chip interconnection delay become incr...
We have implemented an information flow framework for the Java Virtual Machine that combines static and dynamic techniques to capture not only explicit flows, but also implicit ...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to robust skeleton extraction. We use undirected graphs to model connectivity of the skeleton points. The graph topology remains unchang...