Distributed Programming in Ada with ...

by Pascal Ledru

As distributed applications become more sophisticated, their implementation becomes more and more difficult. It is therefore important to study how to facilitate the implementation of efficient ...

Gesture Generation by Imitation
From Human Behavior to Computer Character Animation

by Michael Kipp

In an effort to extend traditional human-computer interfaces research has introduced embodied agents to utilize the modalities of everyday human-human communication, like facial expression, ...

Experience-Based Language Acquisition
A Computational Model of Human Language Acquisition

by Brian E. Pangburn

Almost from the very beginning of the digital age, people have sought better ways to communicate with computers. This research investigates how computers might be enabled to understand natural ...

Displacement Mapping and Volume Rendering ...

by Michael C. Doggett

This dissertation introduces new hardware architectures for more realistic surface rendering of three dimensional objects and the rendering of volumetric datasets. Surface rendering is dealt with in ...

A Spare Capacity Planning Methodology for ...

by Adel A. Al-Rumaih

In this dissertation, a new spare capacity planning methodology is proposed utilizing path restoration. The approach is based on forcing working flows/traffic which are on paths that are disjoint ...

A Reactive Approach to Comprehensive Global ...

by Sylvain R Y Louboutin

Comprehensive global garbage detection (GGD) in object-oriented distributed systems, i.e., GGD intrinsically able to detect distributed cycles of garbage, has mostly been addressed via ...

Software-Agents and Liberal Order
An Inquiry along the Borderline between Economics and ...

by Dirk N Wagner

"Liberal order and software-agents" - long-established ideas and modern technology are bridged. The impulse for undertaking this effort comes from the observation that it becomes difficult for ...

On Perl
Perl for Students and Professionals

by Jugal K. Kalita

The book has an introductory chapter that gets the reader started quickly with programming in Perl. The initial part of the book discusses Perl expressions, statements, control flow, built-in data ...