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ESCIENCE
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Distributed Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Scientific Computing
A distributed Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is proposed to help users solve partial differential equation (PDE) based problems in scientific computing. The system inputs a pro...
Shigeo Kawata, Hideaki Fuju, Hideaki Sugiura, Yuic...
ECOOP
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Uniform Transactional Execution Environment for Java
Abstract. Transactional memory (TM) has recently emerged as an effective tool for extracting fine-grain parallelism from declarative critical sections. In order to make STM systems...
Lukasz Ziarek, Adam Welc, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, ...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
169views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A strategy-centric approach to the design of end-user debugging tools
End-user programmers’ code is notoriously buggy. This problem is amplified by the increasing complexity of end users’ programs. To help end users catch errors early and reliab...
Valentina Grigoreanu, Margaret M. Burnett, George ...
VL
2006
IEEE
100views Visual Languages» more  VL 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers