The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
Difference, intersection, semi-join and anti-semi-join may be considered binary subset operators, in that they all return a subset of their left-hand argument. These operators are...
Joseph Dunn, Sean Davey, Anne Descour, Richard T. ...
The creation of a virtual world environment (VWE) has significant costs, such as maintenance of server rooms, server administration, and customer service. The initial development...
Luis Diego Briceno, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. ...
Transactional monitors are proposed as an alternative to monitors based on mutualexclusion synchronization for object-oriented programming languages. Transactional monitors have e...