PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
JAVA’s interface construct is widely perceived as a weak surrogate for multiple inheritance. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that despite their potential for writing...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
Building distributed systems is an inherently difficult and complex task. Modern middleware architectures assist developers ding abstractions that hide transport layer functionali...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
In this paper we investigate the implications of Java’s dynamic proxies for supporting open architectures to implement reusable code. Dynamic proxies are interpreted as meta-obj...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
We present empirical evidence to demonstrate that there is little or no difference between the Java Virtual Machine and the .NET Common Language Runtime, as regards the compilati...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
We present a probabilistic model, based on Dynamic Decision Networks, to assess user affect from possible causes of emotional arousal. The model relies on the OCC cognitive theory...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
The Stock Tracker is an adaptive recommendation system for trading stocks that automatically acquires content-based models of user preferences to tailor its buy and sell advice. T...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
As household appliances grow in complexity and sophistication, they become harder and harder to use, particularly because of their tiny display screens and limited keyboards. This...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2003
ACM
We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking a...