How much can we infer about the pronunciation of a language – past or present – by observing which words its speakers rhyme? This paper explores the connection between pronunc...
Abstract. In component-based programming, the programmer assembles applications from prefabricated components. The assembly process has two main steps: adapting a component by twea...
Abstract. In Aspect-Oriented Programming we decompose a problem into a number of functional components as well as a number of aspects and then we compose these components and aspec...
In this paper, the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for Gaussian mixture modeling is improved via three statistical tests. The first test is a multivariate normality criteri...
Abstract. Conventional middleware architectures suffer from insufficient module-level reusability and the ability to adapt in face of functionality evolution and diversification....