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Regulating air traffic flow with coupled agents
: AAMAS 08
Air traffic is growing rapidly, and efficiency of present flow-regulating techniques is becoming debatable. In 2005, there was an estimated 322,272 hours of delay in US air traffic, causing additional...
Multiagent Systems (I.2.11...) | Oct 8 08
The intermediary agent’s brain: supporting learning to collaborate at the inter-personal level
: AAMAS 08
A simulation, intended to teach effective collaboration, is described in this paper. The user attempts to collaborate with a simulated peer, the intermediary agent (IA). The degree to which the IA...
Intelligent Agents (I.2.11...) | Sep 25 08
Texture and shape information fusion for facial action unit recognition
: ACHI ’08
Facial expression analysis aims at the identification of facial appearance changes, as recorded in video sequences, and their subsequent classification into six basic expressions: happiness, sadness...
Texture (I.4.7...) | Sep 17 08
A fast pace method for involving children in edutainment-technology design
: ACHI 2008
“Edutainment” describes entertainment that educates, such as a hands-on museum. This study uniquely involves ten-year-old Greek schoolchildren in the design stage of museum technologies...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1) | Sep 11 08
Identifying important and difficult concepts in introductory computing courses using a Delphi process
: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
A concept inventory (CI) is a measurement tool designed to evaluate student understanding of a particular topic or field. This paper discusses research in computer science (CS) education...
Computer Science Education (K.3.2...) | Sep 25 08
Improving performance and reducing energy-delay with adaptive resource resizing for out-of-order embedded processors
: ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Homayoun et al. contend that increasing the size of processor resources is not an effective way to improve performance, due to constraints on achievable clock...
Single Data Stream Architectures (C.1.1) | Sep 15 08
RaWMS - random walk based lightweight membership service for wireless ad hoc networks
: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
A random walk is a trajectory made up of a series of random steps. This paper reports on using the results of the topological study of random walks (RWs) on random geometric graphs to model the...
Wireless Communication (C.2.1...) | Sep 30 08
Reuse and optimization of testbenches and properties in a TLM-to-RTL design flow
: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Transaction-based verification is a recent trend in hardware verification. The system is considered at higher levels of abstraction that model the data transfers and input/output (I/O)...
Hardware Description Lang. (B.5.2...) | Sep 18 08
Mitigating application-level denial of service attacks on Web servers: a client-transparent approach
: ACM Transactions on the Web
When the response from Google or Yahoo! is slow, you may think, “What a busy day it is!” But the actual truth may be that these Web sites are being attacked using the denial of service DoS) tactic. A DoS...
Distributed Systems (C.2.4) | Sep 19 08
The effects of virtual reality, augmented reality, and motion parallax on egocentric depth perception
: APGV 08
Depth perception is an interesting area of research in virtual environments. With the advent of augmented reality (AR) applications, it is increasingly being studied...
Virtual Reality (I.3.7...) | Sep 30 08
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25 years of model checking: history, achievements, perspectives
In academia, a festschrift is a book that tends to be either overly pedantic or superficially celebratory, given the fact that it honors a respected colleague. Nonetheless, this festschrift has implications...
Model Checking (D.2.4...)
| Sep 26 08
A first course in statistical programming with R
R is a freely available statistical software system that is part of Project GNU. This thin (163-page) book introduces statistical programming using R.
The introductory chapter describes, among other things, statistical programming and how to...
Very High-Level Languages (D.3.2...)
| Oct 1 08
A semantic Web primer (2nd ed.)
Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), has a vision that the Web will not only provide human-human communication, but that machines will also be able to help. This vision is referred to as the semantic Web, because the meaning of...
Web-Based Services (H.3.5...)
| Sep 24 08
Advances in signal transforms: theory and applications
Some of the most recent major advances in the field of signal transforms are introduced in this volume. Collecting some of the most recent developments in the theory and practice of the design and use of transforms in digital and image processing...
Signal Processing (I.5.4...)
| Oct 6 08
Ajax security
Ajax technology is increasingly being used to build Web sites. As the title suggests, this book treats various security aspects related to Ajax technology. It describes various types of attacks possible...
Protection Mechanisms (D.2.0...)
| Sep 18 08
Augmented learning: research and design of mobile educational games
I do like mobile games. A well-crafted mobile game is not only fun to play, but it offers the benefits of being able to efficiently kill time while riding a bus or waiting in a dentist’s office. One might think...
Computer Uses In Education (K.3.1)
| Oct 2 08
Beginning Ubuntu Linux: from novice to professional (3rd ed.)
Here is a great reference for Linux newcomers. It starts with Linux history and an Ubuntu installation guide, and then continues with setup, administration, office software, multimedia applications, and continuing maintenance. A double-sided DVD...
Linux (D.4.0...)
| Oct 1 08
Communicating design: developing Web site documentation for design and planning
Let’s say that you and your team created a great Web site, but now you need to make some upgrade changes. Do you have the foresight to document all the information that went into the entire design process? Many Web sites, unfortunately, do...
Systems Analysis And Design (K.6.1...)
| Sep 26 08
Computational geometry: algorithms and applications
Computational geometry is the study of algorithms and techniques that are used in the area of computer graphics or have a geometric component. An excellent introduction to the field is given here, including a general motivation and usage cases...
Comp. Geometry & Obj. Modeling (I.3.5)
| Sep 30 08
Concurrent and real-time programming in ADA (3rd ed.)
Ada is one of the few imperative programming languages with concurrency built into the design of the language itself. With the increase of multi-core processors in commodity hardware, this new and revised edition of a comprehensive...
Concurrent Programming (D.1.3)
| Sep 30 08
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