Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Softwa...
The MPEG-4 standard includes support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics and sounds. In the MPEG-4 specifications, Body Animation Parameters (BAP...
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar,...
We describe the design, generation and compression of the extended whole program path (eWPP) representation that not only captures the control flow history of a program execution...
Dynamic optimization has the potential to adapt the program’s behavior at run-time to deliver performance improvements over static optimization. Dynamic optimization systems usu...
In 2002, Japan announced the Earth Simulator—a supercomputer based on low-volume vector processors and a custom network—and reported that computational scientists had used it ...