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Magazine: September 2005 | Volume 12, No. 1

September 2005 | Volume 12, No. 1

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Introduction

By William Stevenson

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Communication hardware, interfaces and storage, Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks, Document management, Document types, Intellectual property, Natural language processing, Network performance evaluation, Networks, Operating systems, Performance, Software and its engineering

Introduction to programming shared-memory and distributed-memory parallel computers

By Cory Quammen

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Algorithms, Concurrent programming languages, Design, Distributed memory, Distributed systems organizing principles, Dynamic memory, Operational analysis, Performance, Performance, Process management

Game-state fidelity across distributed interactive games

By Aaron McCoy, Declan Delaney, Tomas Ward

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Availability, Design, Distributed architectures, Maintainability and maintenance, Network protocols, Parallel and distributed DBMSs, Performance, Performance, Reliability

Using software watermarking to discourage piracy

By Ginger Myles

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Access protection, Computer crime, Design, Intellectual property, Security, Security and privacy, Software security engineering

The development of a game playing framework using interface-based programming

By Mark A. Cohen

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Client-server architectures, Design, Development frameworks and environments, Interaction design, Interactive systems and tools, Interoperability, Patterns, Software architectures

Using perception in managing unstructured documents

By Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Cluster analysis, Design, Document management, Information retrieval, Information storage systems, Management, Natural language interfaces, Natural language processing