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SIGDOC
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Semantic thumbnails: a novel method for summarizing document collections
The concept of thumbnails is common in image representation. A thumbnail is a highly compressed version of an image that provides a small, yet complete visual representation to th...
Arijit Sengupta, Mehmet M. Dalkilic, James C. Cost...
IDEAS
2009
IEEE
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16 years 20 days ago
Semantics of a runtime adaptable transaction manager
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) that can be tailored to specific requirements offer the potential to improve reliability and maintainability and simultaneously the ability t...
Florian Irmert, Frank Lauterwald, Christoph P. Neu...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Refinements and multi-dimensional separation of concerns
1 Step-wise refinement (SWR) asserts that complex programs can be derived from simple programs by progressively adding features. The length of a program specification is the number...
Don S. Batory, Jia Liu, Jacob Neal Sarvela
PPOPP
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
The LOFAR correlator: implementation and performance analysis
LOFAR is the first of a new generation of radio telescopes. Rather than using expensive dishes, it forms a distributed sensor network that combines the signals from many thousands...
John W. Romein, P. Chris Broekema, Jan David Mol, ...
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Managing ambiguity in programming by finding unambiguous examples
We propose a new way to raise the level of discourse in the programming process: permit ambiguity, but manage it by linking it to unambiguous examples. This allows programming env...
Kenneth C. Arnold, Henry Lieberman