Interface-based programming, i.e. the systematic use of interface types in variable declarations, serves the decoupling of classes and increases a program’s changeability. To ma...
Learning and reasoning from multiple documents requires students to employ the skills of sourcing (i.e., attending to and citing sources) and information integration (i.e., making ...
Mary Anne Britt, Peter M. Wiemer-Hastings, Aaron A...
Future software development will rely on product synthesis, i.e., the synthesis of code and non-code artifacts for a target component or application. Prior work on feature-based p...
This paper presents two extensions for XQuery. The first extension allows the definition and processing of different kinds of windows over an input sequence; i.e., tumbling, slidi...
Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, D...
In this paper, a novel learning algorithm for Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) has been devised. The key issue is the achievement of a sparse model, i.e., a model in which all irreleva...