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DDEP
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
2000
Springer
There are parallels between the construction of programs and the construction of hypertexts, and in ar between the abstractions available to the application programmer and those a...
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ICMCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper, we derive an analytical model for the evaluation of the performance of a Video on Demand (VoD) system. The model estimates the mean waiting time achievable by the P...
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VL
2006
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
2006
IEEE
To explore how people conceptualize a complex system, 232 university students were asked to sketch how a search engine works. While the sketches reveal a diverse range of visual a...
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IFIPTCS
2000
15 years 10 months ago
2000
Hierarchical state machines are finite state machines whose states themselves can be other machines. In spite of their popularity in many modeling tools for software design, very l...
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ITICSE
2005
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
2005
ACM
The complexity of languages like Java and C++ can make introductory programming classes in these languages extremely challenging for many students. Part of the complexity comes fr...