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SPE
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Cork: dynamic memory leak detection for garbage-collected languages
A memory leak in a garbage-collected program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap grow...
Maria Jump, Kathryn S. McKinley
SPATIALCOGNITION
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Interactive Layout Generation with a Diagrammatic Constraint Language
The paper analyzes a diagrammatic reasoning problem that consists in finding a graphical layout which simultaneously satisfies a set of constraints expressed in a formal language a...
Christoph Schlieder, Cornelius Hagen
ECAI
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Using Natural Language Generation Technology to Improve Information Flows in Intensive Care Units
In the drive to improve patient safety, patients in modern intensive care units are closely monitored with the generation of very large volumes of data. Unless the data are further...
Jim Hunter, Albert Gatt, François Portet, E...
ESWS
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Rabbit: Developing a Control Natural Language for Authoring Ontologies
: The mathematical nature of description logics has meant that domain experts find them hard to understand. This forms a significant impediment to the creation and adoption of onto...
Glen Hart, Martina Johnson, Catherine Dolbear