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Process-centered review of object oriented software development methodologies
: ACM Computing Surveys
This substantial and highly significant publication provides a detailed review that focuses on the development processes of existing object-oriented software development methodologies. After...
Methodologies (D.2.1...) | Jun 19 08
Process-centered review of object oriented software development methodologies
: ACM Computing Surveys
In this paper, the authors provide a detailed view of the evolution of this important phase of software engineering. They describe the processes through which the evolution has taken place. It is...
Methodologies (D.2.1...) | Jun 17 08
A model for high school computer science education: the four key elements that make it!
: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
When it comes to education, is the curriculum all that matters? Hazzan et al. emphasize that the success of Israeli high school computer science (CS) education is due to “more than just the curriculum...
Computer Science Education (K.3.2...) | Jun 18 08
Towards cinematic Internet video-on-demand
: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Cheng et al. describe and discuss GridCast, a video-on-demand system, online since 2006. This system employs peer assistance to improve scalability and continuity. This approach allows GridCast...
Distributed Applications (C.2.4...) | Jul 1 08
Strategy-based instruction: lessons learned in teaching the effective and efficient use of computer applications
: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
The strength of strategy-based instruction resides in its instructional practices and learning environments, especially when applied to teaching the use of computer applications. In addition, as practice...
Curriculum (K.3.2...) | Jul 2 08
On the construction of practical key predistribution schemes for distributed sensor networks using combinatorial designs
: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Key predistribution schemes (KPSs) enhance the efficiency of distributed sensor networks. This paper discusses secure key deterministic predistribution schemes for distributed sensor networks...
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Jun 20 08
A model of the spread of randomly scanning Internet worms that saturate access links
: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
Internet worms are computer programs that are launched to infiltrate machines, and replicate themselves to infect other machines, often with code to make those machines to crash or fail...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Jun 18 08
Exploring the neighborhood with Dora to expedite software maintenance
: ASE ’07
Hill et al. present Dora as a tool that does a better job at identifying relevant code parts when performing software maintenance. The key idea in Dora is to prune away structurally connected but...
Restructuring ... Reengineering (D.2.7...) | Jun 27 08
Duality in permutation state spaces and the dual search algorithm
: Artificial Intelligence
In the field of heuristic search, it is common practice to apply various domain-dependent ideas that serve to significantly enhance the performance of different algorithms...
Prob. Solving/Control Meth./Search (I.2.8) | Jun 30 08
State-set branching: leveraging BDDs for heuristic search
: Artificial Intelligence
One of the limiting factors of best-first search methods such as the classic A* algorithm and its variants is the rapid (often exponential) growth in the size of the search...
Graph & Tree Search Strategies (I.2.8...) | Jun 17 08
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A first course in order statistics
Although called “a first course” and structured for use as a course text, this well-presented book on order statistics covers an extensive amount of order-statistics theory and practice. This classics edition is a revised edition of the earlier...
Probability And Statistics (G.3)
| Jul 8 08
Advanced autonomic networking and communication
Autonomic networking is a discipline with the goal of creating a sort of self-organizing system to ease the process of network configuration in large systems. This book is a set of nine papers organized around three topics on autonomic networking and...
General (C.2.0)
| Jun 19 08
Advances in fuzzy clustering and its applications
Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic help model vagueness and ambiguity in data representation, collection, and analysis. The subject has been of great interest to researchers since 1965, when Zadeh published...
Clustering (I.5.3)
| Jul 8 08
Botnet detection: countering the largest security threat
Bots are computers that have been compromised and caused to perform tasks, usually malicious, without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Botnets are distributed networks of bots, coordinated by botmasters, generally for illegal activities, such...
Security and Protection (C.2.0...)
| Jun 17 08
Coding theory: algorithms, architectures and applications
Coding theory analyzes the transmission of information over noisy communication channels that are not necessarily robust. Time constraints have to be satisfied for efficient digital communication systems...
Coding And Information Theory (E.4)
| Jun 16 08
Communications engineering: essentials for computer scientists and electrical engineers
Education is well served by this well-thought-out and balanced textbook. Advanced computer science students and beginning electrical engineering students will obtain an understanding of the essentials of the communications technologies that permeate...
General (C.2.0)
| Jun 11 08
Computational methods for multiphase flows in porous media
Part of a series, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), this book addresses the needs of computational scientists and engineers in their specific disciplines. The book concentrates on petroleum reservoir simulation...
Partial Differential Equations (G.1.8)
| Jul 4 08
Computers and education: towards educational change and innovation
The seventh International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE), organized by the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, was held in Leiria, Portugal, in November 2005. This book contains 27 revised and translated versions of...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1)
| Jun 16 08
Crowd simulation
Crowd simulation is a complex research area related to a number of traditional computer science domains and also to psychology. This book describes algorithms and techniques for crowd simulation and is probably the best single-source document on...
General (I.6.0)
| Jun 26 08
Cryptanalytic attacks on RSA
In today’s world, ever-increasing electronic and mobile transactions necessitate the use of public-key cryptography. The Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptosystem was among the first...
Data Encryption (E.3)
| Jun 13 08
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