XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
This paper examines the idea of combining Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) and MMORPG into a hybrid game named Takkar. We developed three versions of Takkar in an iterative fashion...
We set out to examine whether current, DRM-based online offerings of music and movies accord with consumers’ current expectations regarding the personal use of copyrighted works...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
—Variations of process parameters have an important impact on reliability and yield in deep sub micron IC technologies. One methodology to estimate the influence of these effects...