The paper describes the design of a generation component for a spoken dialogue system. After discussing three existing models of generation, a model based on new information focus...
Abstract. Virtual machines (VMs) emulating hardware devices are generally implemented in low-level languages for performance reasons. This results in unmaintainable systems that ar...
Threads have been present in programming languages for some time now. However, they have a bad image among software developers because they lead to unreliable applications. Most o...
Preventing abusive resource consumption is indispensable for all kinds of systems that execute untrusted mobile code, such as mobile object systems, extensible web servers, and we...
Since software systems are becoming increasingly more concurrent and distributed, modeling and analysis of interactions among their components is a crucial problem. In several app...