Still and multi-media images are subject to transformations for compression, steganographic embedding and digital watermarking. In a major program of activities we are engaged in t...
Abstract. A promising approach towards evaluating adaptive systems is to decompose the adaptation process and evaluate the system in a “piece-wise” manner. This paper presents ...
I propose a set of criteria which distinguish a grand challenge in science or engineering from the many other kinds of short-term or long-term research problems that engage the int...
We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutabl...
Refinement semantics is an alternative to least fixpoint semantics that is more useful for programming. From it we derive a variety of rules for w h i l e-loops, for-loops, and loo...