Getting started with PHP and smarty
By Ryan Nauman, March 2008
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Getting started on natural language processing with Python
By Nitin Madnani, September 2007
Avoid common pitfalls when programming 2D graphics in java
This paper presents the core knowledge required to properly develop 2D games in Java. We describe the common pitfalls that can easily degrade graphics performance and show how we achieved impressive frames-per-second display updates when implementing Minueto, a game development framework.
By Alexandre Denault, Jörg Kienzle, March 2007
Modeling protein dependency networks using CoCoA
In an interdisciplinary effort to model protein dependency networks, biologists measure signals from certain proteins within cells over a given interval of time. Using this time series data, the goal is to deduce protein dependency relationships. The mathematical challenges is to statistically measure correlations between given proteins over time in order to conjecture probable relationships. Biologists can then consider these relationships with more scrutiny, in order to confirm their conjectures. One algorithm for finding such relationships makes use of interpolation of the data to produce next-state functions for each protein and the Deegan-Packel Index of Power voting method to measure the strength of correlations between pairs of proteins. The algorithm was previously implemented, but limitations associated with the original language required the algorithm to be re-implemented in a more computationally efficient language. Because of the algebraic focus of the Computational Commutative Algebra language, or CoCoA, the algorithm was re-implemented in this language, and results have been produced much more efficiently. In this paper I discuss the algorithm, the CoCoA language, the implementation of the algorithm in CoCoA, and the quality of the results.
By Grey Ballard, September 2006
C-Transformers
By Alexandre Borghi, Valentin David, Akim Demaille, May 2006
Stratego
Programming languages have a dual role in the construction of software. The language is both our substrate (the stuff we make software from), and our tool (what we use to construct software). Program transformation (PT) deals with the analysis, manipulation and generation of software. Therefore a close relationship exists between program transformation and programming languages, to the point where the PT field has produced many domain-specific languages for manipulating programs. In this article, I will show you some interesting aspects from one of these languages : Stratego.
By Karl Trygve Kalleberg, May 2006
A crash overview of groovy
By Kevin Henry, May 2006
Microsoft windows programming strategies
By Mike Maxim, May 2006
What is a good first programming language?
By Diwaker Gupta, August 2004
FEATURE: Features
Coaching a society of robots in accomplishing joint tasks
By Marc Perron, September 2002
Managing XML data storage
By Jerry Emerick, June 2002
Technologies for the development of agent-based distributed applications
By Tobias Butte, April 2002
Software verification and validation with destiny
This paper presents an introduction to computer-aided theorem proving and a new approach using parallel processing to increase power and speed of this computation. Automated theorem provers, along with human interpretation, have been shown to be powerful tools in verifying and validating computer software. Destiny is a new tool that provides even greater and more powerful analysis enabling greater ties between software programs and their specifications.
By Josiah Dykstra, April 2002
An introduction to Java servlet programming
By Vandana Pursnani, December 2001
Why bison is becoming extinct
At some point in your career, you're going to implement a computer language. You probably won't be implementing Java or C++. You may not even recognize it as a language. Truth be told, there are an awful lot of domain-specific languages, or "little languages" [7] in common use:
- configuration files,
- HTML/XML documents,
- shell scripts,
- network protocols,
- mail headers,
- command-line arguments.
By John Aycock, July 2001
Objective viewpoint
By Kevin Henry, March 2001
Objective ViewPoint: distributed computation with Java remote method invocation
By Kevin Henry, July 2000
Introduction: WYSIWYG—more or less
By Fernando Berzal Galiano, June 2000
Objective viewpoint: make your GUI swing
By Matt Tucker, June 2000
Charlotte
By Stuart Patterson, June 2000
Graphic libraries for Windows programming
By M. Carmen Juan Lizandra, June 2000
Microsoft Windows programming strategies
By Mike Maxim, June 2000
Objective viewpoint
By Matt Tucker, March 2000
Introduction to markup languages issue
By Jason Bedunah, November 1999
Book review: software engineering with Java
By Adrian P. O'Riordan, November 1999
Web review: W3C, the World Wide Web consortium
By Kim Moorman, November 1999
XML: the future of the Web
By John B. Bedunah, November 1999
OpenMath and MathML: semantic markup for mathematics
Unambiguous representation of mathematics is crucial for communications among humans or among computer systems. OpenMath is a standard aimed at supporting a semantically rich interchange of mathematics among varied computational software tools such as computer algebra systems, theorem provers, and tools for visualizing or editing mathematical text. MathML is a W3C Recommendation for the encoding of mathematics 'on the web' which also includes mechanisms for encoding mathematical semantics. We introduce each of these two languages and describe their relationships.
By O. Caprotti, D. Carlisle, November 1999
An architecture for easy Web page updating
By John Aycock, Michael Levy, November 1999
XML to be, VRML to see
By B. Arun, A. D. Ganguly, November 1999
Objective viewpoint
By George Crawford, September 1999
Architectures and compilers to support reconfigurable computing
By João M. P. Cardoso, Mário P. Vestístias, March 1999
Parallel processing in heterogeneous cluster architechtures using JavaPorts
By Demetris G. Galatopoullos, Elias S. Manolakos, March 1999
Web site review: the Ada project
By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 1998
Objective viewpoint: Java AWT layout management 101
This article provides a brief summary of basic layout management in the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and is intended to serve as a foundation for more sophisticated AWT programming.
By George Crawford, September 1998
Much ado about patterns
By Robert Zubek, September 1998
Explanation component of software system
Explanation is an important feature that needs to be integrated into software products. Early software that filled the horizontal software market (such as word processors) contained help systems. More specialized systems, known as expert systems, were developed to produce solutions that required specific domain knowledge of the problem being solved. The expert systems initially produced results that were consistent with the results produced by experts, but the expert systems only mimicked the rules the experts outlined. The decisions provided by expert systems include no justification, thus causing users to doubt the results reported by the system. If the user was dealing with a human expert, he could ask for a line of reasoning used to draw the conclusion. The line of reasoning provided by the human expert could then be inspected for discrepancies by another expert or verified in some other manner. Software systems need better explanations of how to use them and how they produce results. This will allow the users to take advantage of the numerous features being provided and increase their trust in the software product.
By Bruce A. Wooley, September 1998
The use of Java as an introductory programming language
By Jason Hong, May 1998
A simple SMTP framework for Java
By George Crawford, May 1998
Protecting Java code via code obfuscation
The Java language is compiled into a platform independent bytecode format. Much of the information contained in the original source code remains in the bytecode, thus decompilation is easy. We will examine how code obfuscation can help protect Java bytecodes.
By Douglas Low, April 1998
A practical crash course in Java 1.1+ programming and technology: part II
By George Crawford, April 1998
Java:introduction
By Vishal Shah, November 1997
The wonders of Java object serialization
By Brian T. Kurotsuchi, November 1997
Using the Java Native Interface
The Java Native Interface (JNI) comes with the standard Java Development Kit (JDK) from Sun Microsystems. It permits Java programmers to integrate native code (currently C and C++) into their Java applications. This article will focus on how to make use of the JNI and will provide a few examples illustrating the usefulness of this feature. Although a native method system was included with the JDK 1.0 release, this article is concerned with the JDK 1.1 JNI which has several new features, and is much cleaner than the previous release. Also, the examples given will be specific to JDK 1.1 installed on the Solaris Operating System.
By S. Fouzi Husaini, November 1997
A practical crash course in Java 1.1+ programming and technology: part I
By George Crawford, November 1997
Road crew
By John Cavazos, November 1997
Task integration in multimodal speech recognition environments
By Michael A. Grasso, Tim Finin, April 1997
Objective view point: a cornucopia of C++ resources
By G. Bowden Wise, November 1996
Objective view point: casting in C++
By G. Bowden Wise, September 1996
Objective View Point: statics
By G. Bowden Wise, April 1996