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Measuring the strength of information flows in programs
Masri W., Podgurski A. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 19(2): 1-33, 2009. Type: Article
A detailed analysis of the use of correlation and entropy measures to examine the relationship between data and control variables, as accessed by different programs, is presented in this paper. The idea is to see if, by exhaustively testing only...
Mar 8 2010
Beginning the Linux command line
van Vugt S., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2009. 392 pp. Type: Book
The book explains the use and effectiveness of Linux commands. It starts with everyday commands for novices, and then gradually introduces commands for advanced Linux users, such as administrators. Considering that even mobile phones have a...
Mar 1 2010
C++ bindings to external software libraries with examples from BLAS, LAPACK, UMFPACK, and MUMPS
Meerbergen K., Fresl K., Knapen T. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 36(4): 1-23, 2009. Type: Article
In scientific computing, there is a strong trend toward the use of modern object-oriented languages like C++. However, it is often advisable to avoid rewriting well-known and proven algorithms and to link to available libraries containing such...
Feb 22 2010
The business of IT: how to improve service and lower costs
Ryan R., Raducha-Grace T., IBM Press, Indianapolis, IN, 2009. 320 pp. Type: Book
As firms are transforming from the traditional hierarchical management structure to process enterprises, the function of the information technology (IT) department in a firm is changing from its traditional responsibility of providing...
Feb 16 2010
Total FETI based algorithm for contact problems with additional non-linearities
Dobiáš J., Pták S., Dostál Z., Vondrák V. Advances in Engineering Software 41(1): 46-51, 2010. Type: Article
The finite element tearing and interconnecting (FETI) method [1] is a well-established algorithm for the numerical solution of partial differential equations on distributed memory parallel computers. It is based on tearing the original domain...
Feb 8 2010
Text versus speech: a comparison of tagging input modalities for camera phones
Cherubini M., Anguera X., Oliver N., de Oliveira R. MobileHCI 09 (Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Bonn, Germany, Sep 15-18, 2009) 1-10, 2009. Type: Proceedings
The paper investigates three modalities for labeling pictures captured with mobile phone cameras, both at the tag production stage and as a retrieval tool for pictures. Cherubini et al. “report the results of a month-long field study in...
Feb 1 2010
Implicit curves and surfaces: mathematics, data structures and algorithms
Gomes A., Voiculescu I., Jorge J., Wyvill B., Galbraith C., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2009. 352 pp. Type: Book
The main problem with this text is that there’s simply too much in it. The authors attempt to include everything that possibly relates to the mathematics and graphics of implicit curves and surfaces; hence, the book suffers from overly...
Jan 25 2010
Refunctionalization at work
Danvy O., Millikin K. Science of Computer Programming 74(8): 534-549, 2009. Type: Article
Don’t let the title fool you--this paper is only partly about the technical details of some seemingly obscure program transformation technique. This engagingly written paper brings the reader along a much richer discovery path, toward...
Jan 18 2010
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference (2nd ed.)
Pearl J., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2009. 478 pp. Type: Book
The publication of the first edition of this book was a landmark in the study of causality [1]. It provided a coherent statement of more than two decades of previous research by Pearl and his students and colleagues. Pearl’s approach...
Jan 11 2010
Optical networks: a practical perspective
Ramaswami R., Sivarajan K., Sasaki G., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2009. 928 pp. Type: Book
Optical communication has become a classic networking technology. If this year’s Nobel Prize is not proof enough, the third edition of the book by Ramaswami et al. confirms it. The book includes thorough coverage of basic optical technology ...
Jan 4 2010
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