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BCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Neighbourhood Cellular Automata
We propose a defi nition of Cellular Automaton in which links between cells can change during the computation. This is done locally by each cell, which can reach the neighbours of...
Stefan S. Dantchev
BCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Overcoming Software Fragility with Interacting Feedback Loops and Reversible Phase Transitions
Programs are fragile for many reasons, including software errors, partial failures, and network problems. One way to make software more robust is to design it from the start as a ...
Peter Van Roy
BCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Component-Based Description of Programming Languages
Research in formal description of programming languages over the past four decades has led to some significant achievements. These include formal syntax and semantics for complete...
Peter D. Mosses
BCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Object representatives: a uniform abstraction for pointer information
on Abstraction Implementation Related Work and Conclusion Object representatives: a uniform ion for pointer information Eric Bodden, Patrick Lam and Laurie Hendren September 2008 ...
Eric Bodden, Patrick Lam, Laurie J. Hendren
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
The Role of Positive Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The focus of this study is positive feedback in one-on-one tutoring, its computational modeling, and its application to the design of more effective Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ...
Davide Fossati
EUROPAR
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Co-design of Distributed Systems Using Skeleton and Autonomic Management Abstractions
nomic Management Abstractions M. Aldinucci1 , M. Danelutto1 , and P. Kilpatrick2 1 Dept. Computer Science, Univ. of Pisa, Italy 2 Dept. Computer Science, Queen's Univ. of Belf...
Marco Aldinucci, Marco Danelutto, Peter Kilpatrick
COMPGEOM
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Discrete laplace operator on meshed surfaces
In recent years a considerable amount of work in graphics and geometric optimization used tools based on the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a surface. The applications of the Laplac...
Mikhail Belkin, Jian Sun, Yusu Wang
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Black-box accountable authority identity-based encryption
A well-known concern in the setting of identity based encryption is that the PKG is all powerful and has to be completely trusted. To mitigate this problem, the notion of Accounta...
Vipul Goyal, Steve Lu, Amit Sahai, Brent Waters
BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Why Sets?
Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
Andreas Blass
BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Observability Concepts in Abstract Data Type Specification, 30 Years Later
ility concepts in abstract data type specification, 30 years later Donald Sannella1 and Andrzej Tarlecki2,3 1 Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburg...
Donald Sannella, Andrzej Tarlecki