Interprocessor synchronization, while extremely important for ensuring execution correctness, can be very costly in terms of both power and performance overheads. Unfortunately, m...
Question-answering dialogue systems have found many applications in interactive learning environments. This paper is concerned with one such application for Army leadership traini...
We present in this paper an approach aiming at adapting software components. It focuses on adapting component structures instead of adapting component services. Among the motivati...
The preservation of digital artifacts represents an unanswered challenge for the modern information society: XML and its query languages provide an effective environment to addre...
Many existing software applications involve complex application layer implemented in OO programming languages and at the same time use relational database systems as back-end data...