We describe the goals of the ATTEST project, which started in March 2002 as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, sponsored by the European Commission. In ...
A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the com...
A new image compression algorithm, Distortion Limited Wavelet Image Codec (DLWIC), is introduced. The codec is designed to be simple to implement, fast and have modest requirement...
When Java was first introduced, there was a perception that its many benefits came at a significant performance cost. In the particularly performance-sensitive field of numerical ...
Software helps people fulfill their goals, but development tools lack understanding of those goals. But if development tools did understand how software artifacts relate to higher...