Micro patterns are similar to design patterns, except that micro patterns stand at a lower, closer to the implementation, level of abstraction. Micro patterns are also unique in t...
An acceptability envelope is a region of imperfect but acceptable software systems surrounding a given perfect system. Explicitly targeting the acceptability envelope during devel...
Designing component-based application that meets performance requirements remains a challenging problem, and usually requires a prototype to be constructed to benchmark performanc...
Case attraction has stood as a puzzling, and elusive, oddity of older Indo-European languages. This paper focuses on attraction in Ancient Greek, establishing both the regularity o...
A “blocker” tag is a form of privacy-enhancing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. It operates by interfering with the protocol in which a reader communicates individua...