CarpetLAN: A Novel Indoor Wireless(-like) Networking and Positioning System -- u-Texture: Self-Organizable Universal Panels for Creating Smart Surroundings -- Fast and Robust Interface Generation for Ubiquitous Applications -- Analysis of Chewing Sounds for Dietary Monitoring -- Preventing Camera Recording by Designing a Capture-Resistant Environment -- Self-Mapping in 802.11 Location Systems -…
Software Process Improvement – EuroSPI 2005 Conference -- Agile Methods and Software Issues -- Framework of Agile Patterns -- Deploying Agile Practices in Organizations: A Case Study -- Pair Programming vs. Side-by-Side Programming -- SPI Studies -- Finding and Ranking Research Directions for Software Testing -- Quality: Attitudes and Experience Within the Irish Software Industry -- How Thing…
CAPTCHAs and Performance Analysis -- Building Segmentation Based Human-Friendly Human Interaction Proofs (HIPs) -- A Highly Legible CAPTCHA That Resists Segmentation Attacks -- Visual CAPTCHA with Handwritten Image Analysis -- Characters or Faces: A User Study on Ease of Use for HIPs -- HIP Architectures -- Collaborative Filtering CAPTCHAs -- CAPTCHA Generation as a Web Service -- Leveraging th…
Genetic Programming: Theory and Practice -- Discovering Financial Technical Trading Rules Using Genetic Programming with Lambda Abstraction -- Using Genetic Programming in Industrial Statistical Model Building -- Population Sizing for Genetic Programming Based on Decision-Making -- Considering the Roles of Structure in Problem Solving by Computer -- Lessons Learned Using Genetic Programming in …
Invited Talks -- Topic 1 – Support Tools and Environments -- Topic 2 – Performance Prediction and Evaluation -- Topic 3 – Scheduling and Load-Balancing -- Topic 4 – Compilers for High Performance -- Topic 5 – Parallel and Distributed Databases, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- Topic 6 – Grid and Cluster Computing: Models, Middleware and Architectures -- Topic 7 – Parallel Co…
Object-Oriented Basics -- The .NET Runtime Environment -- C# Quick Start and C# Development -- Exception Handling -- Classes 101 -- Base Classes and Inheritance -- Member Accessibility and Overloading -- Other Class Details -- Structs (Value Types) -- Interfaces -- Versioning and Aliases -- Statements and Flow of Execution -- Variable Scoping and Definite Assignment -- Operators and Expressions…
NTP: The Key to Time Transcendence -- Multiple Views of Time -- Network Administration and IT Trends Throughout History! -- NTP: The Story Behind the Accuracy and Synchronization of Network Time -- NTP Operational, Historical, and Futuristic Overview -- NTP Architecture -- NTP Design, Configuration, and Troubleshooting.Have you ever tried to figure out why your computer clock is off, or why you…
Overview -- Processor Design Issues -- RISC Principles -- Architectures -- MIPS Architecture -- SPARC Architecture -- PowerPC Architecture -- Itanium Architecture -- ARM Architecture -- MIPS Assembly Language -- SPIM Simulator and Debugger -- Assembly Language Overview -- Procedures and the Stack -- Addressing Modes -- Arithmetic Instructions -- Conditional Execution -- Logical and Shift Operat…
Overload Management -- Temporal Protection -- Multi-Thread Applications -- Synchronization Protocols for Hard and Soft Real-Time Systems -- Resource Reclaiming -- Quality of Service Management -- Feedback Scheduling -- Stochastic Scheduling.Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations. They are built under pessimistic assumptions to c…
Socio-Technical Interaction Networks in Free/Open Source Software Development Processes -- Open Source Software Development Process Modeling -- Software Dependability Applications in Process Modeling -- Simulation Process Modelling for Managing Software Evolution -- Software Process Modelling -- Motivation and Process Improvement -- Managing Organizational Change for Software Process Improvemen…