Programs usually follow many implicit programming rules, most of which are too tedious to be documented by programmers. When these rules are violated by programmers who are unawar...
Arpeggio is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network based on the Chord lookup primitive. Queries for data whose metadata matches a certain criterion are performed efficiently by using...
Austin T. Clements, Dan R. K. Ports, David R. Karg...
Many enterprise applications prefer to store XML data as a rich data type, i.e. a sequence of bytes, in a relational database system to avoid the complexity of decomposing the dat...
Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Michae...
This paper describes lessons learned in developing the linguistic, cognitive, emotional, and gestural models underlying virtual human behavior in a training application designed t...
Robert C. Hubal, Geoffrey A. Frank, Curry I. Guinn
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...