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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

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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

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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

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C-Transformers

By Alexandre Borghi, Valentin David, Akim Demaille, May 2006

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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

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A crash overview of groovy

By Kevin Henry, May 2006

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Microsoft windows programming strategies

By Mike Maxim, May 2006

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What is a good first programming language?

By Diwaker Gupta, August 2004

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Coaching a society of robots in accomplishing joint tasks

By Marc Perron, September 2002

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Managing XML data storage

By Jerry Emerick, June 2002

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Technologies for the development of agent-based distributed applications

By Tobias Butte, April 2002

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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

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An introduction to Java servlet programming

By Vandana Pursnani, December 2001

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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.

The list goes on. A number of programs allow you to write scripts to control their operation; infact, just the other day I downloaded a neural network simulator which provided a little programming language to steer the simulation.How will you implement your language? There's the ad hoc approach, of course, but it's not well suited to languages whose design is complex or frequently changing. You also end up writing code to perform tasks which can be effectively automated.You might also consider using existing languages like Tcl [18] and Python [6]. These languages are designed to either be embedded in an existing application, or easily extended. This is a good solution when it can be used, saving a lot of time and effort. However, there may be concerns about tying your language to one which is itself changing, or the syntax and semantics of your language may not match those of such a "host" language.A third approach is to use compiler tools to implement your language. Most were designed for the implementation of large programming languages, but the same principles and techniques apply equally well to little languages. This article is the story of one such tool -- a parser generator tool -- and more importantly, what sort of tool is going to replace it, and why.

By John Aycock, July 2001

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Objective viewpoint

By Kevin Henry, March 2001

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Objective ViewPoint: distributed computation with Java remote method invocation

By Kevin Henry, July 2000

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Introduction: WYSIWYG—more or less

By Fernando Berzal Galiano, June 2000

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Objective viewpoint: make your GUI swing

By Matt Tucker, June 2000

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Charlotte

By Stuart Patterson, June 2000

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Graphic libraries for Windows programming

By M. Carmen Juan Lizandra, June 2000

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Microsoft Windows programming strategies

By Mike Maxim, June 2000

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Objective viewpoint

By Matt Tucker, March 2000

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Introduction to markup languages issue

By Jason Bedunah, November 1999

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Book review: software engineering with Java

By Adrian P. O'Riordan, November 1999

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Web review: W3C, the World Wide Web consortium

By Kim Moorman, November 1999

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XML: the future of the Web

By John B. Bedunah, November 1999

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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

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An architecture for easy Web page updating

By John Aycock, Michael Levy, November 1999

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XML to be, VRML to see

By B. Arun, A. D. Ganguly, November 1999

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Objective viewpoint

By George Crawford, September 1999

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Architectures and compilers to support reconfigurable computing

By João M. P. Cardoso, Mário P. Vestístias, March 1999

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Parallel processing in heterogeneous cluster architechtures using JavaPorts

By Demetris G. Galatopoullos, Elias S. Manolakos, March 1999

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Web site review: the Ada project

By Lynellen D. S. Perry, September 1998

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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

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Much ado about patterns

By Robert Zubek, September 1998

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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

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The use of Java as an introductory programming language

By Jason Hong, May 1998

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A simple SMTP framework for Java

By George Crawford, May 1998

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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

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A practical crash course in Java 1.1+ programming and technology: part II

By George Crawford, April 1998

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Java:introduction

By Vishal Shah, November 1997

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The wonders of Java object serialization

By Brian T. Kurotsuchi, November 1997

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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

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