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SIGCSE
1995
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Requirements for a first year object-oriented teaching language
Interest in teaching object-oriented programming in first year computer science courses has increased substantially over the last few years. While the theoretical advantages are c...
Michael Kölling, Bett Koch, John Rosenberg
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
A General Notion of Useful Information
In this paper we introduce a general framework for defining the depth of a sequence with respect to a class of observers. We show that our general framework captures all depth not...
Philippe Moser
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Two-Domain DNA Strand Displacement
We investigate the computing power of a restricted class of DNA strand displacement structures: those that are made of double strands with nicks (interruptions) in the top strand....
Luca Cardelli
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Sharp Bounds on the Entropy of the Poisson Law and Related Quantities
One of the difficulties in calculating the capacity of certain Poisson channels is that H(), the entropy of the Poisson distribution with mean , is not available in a simple form. ...
José A. Adell, Alberto Lekuona, Yaming Yu
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
FIFO anomaly is unbounded
Abstract. Virtual memory of computers is usually implemented by demand paging. For some page replacement algorithms the number of page faults may increase as the number of page fra...
Peter Fornai, Antal Iványi