According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
User interfaces for modern applications must support a rich set of interactive features. It is commonplace to find applications with dependencies between values manipulated by us...
In an experimental environment, we simulated the situation of a user who gives speech input to a system while walking through an airport. The time pressure on the subjects and the ...
We present a design and implementation of transactions and general-purpose persistence for Java. These additions allow Java programmers to manipulate any Java object using transac...
Optimizations aimed at reducing the impact of memory operations on execution speed have long concentrated on improving cache performance. These efforts achieve a reasonable level...