In this paper we conduct an exploratory experiment on context restoration in multi-tasking dialogue and report our preliminary findings. We examine a corpus of human-human dialog...
Until recently, parallel programming has largely focused on the exploitation of data-parallelism in dense matrix programs. However, many important application domains, including m...
Milind Kulkarni, Martin Burtscher, Calin Cascaval,...
In the Design By Contract (DBC) approach, programmers specify methods with pre and postconditions (also called contracts). Earlier work added protocols to the DBC approach to desc...
Thread escape analysis, which determines whether and when a variable becomes shared by multiple threads, is a foundation for many other program analyses. Most existing escape anal...
Given the increasing dependence of our societies on information systems, the overall security of these systems should be measured and improved. Existing work generally focuses on ...