Novices find it difficult to understand and use compiler error messages. It is useful to refine this observation and study the effect of different message styles on how well and q...
It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
The decision which hardware platform to use for a certain application is an important problem in computer architecture. This paper reports on a study where a data-mining approach i...
In earlier work we have argued that formal process definitions can be useful in improving our understanding and performance of software development processes. There has, however,...
Reynolds' view of a storage cell as an expression-acceptor pair has been widely used by researchers. We present a different way of organizing semantics of state, and in parti...