— Retroactivity is a parasitic phenomenon that changes the desired input/output response of a system when it is connected to “downstream” systems. Downstream and upstream ref...
If intelligent virtual agents are to become widely adopted it is vital that they can be designed using the user friendly graphical tools that are used in other areas of graphics. H...
Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods accordin...
In this paper, we design and evaluate alternative selection placement strategies for optimizing a very large number of continuous queries in an Internet environment. Two grouping ...
Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton
Visitors enter a website through a variety of means, including web searches, links from other sites, and personal bookmarks. In some cases the first page loaded satisfies the visi...
Justin Brickell, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Dharmendra S...