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Pointcut Rejuvenation: Recovering Pointcut Expressions In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Phil Greenwood, Awais Rashid, Harry Xu May 2012

Pointcut Rejuvenation: Recovering Pointcut Expressions In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software, Raffi T. Khatchadourian, Phil Greenwood, Awais Rashid, Harry Xu

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Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base code can lead to join points incorrectly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. In this paper, we present an automated approach that limits fragility problems by providing mechanical assistance in pointcut maintenance. The approach is based on harnessing arbitrarily deep structural commonalities between program elements corresponding to join points selected by a pointcut. The extracted patterns are then applied to later versions to offer suggestions of new join points that may require inclusion. To illustrate that the motivation behind our proposal is well founded, …


Entropy And The Complexity Of Graphs Revisited, Abbe Mowshowitz, Matthias Dehmer Mar 2012

Entropy And The Complexity Of Graphs Revisited, Abbe Mowshowitz, Matthias Dehmer

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This paper presents a taxonomy and overview of approaches to the measurement of graph and network complexity. The taxonomy distinguishes between deterministic (e.g., Kolmogorov complexity) and probabilistic approaches with a view to placing entropy-based probabilistic measurement in context. Entropy-based measurement is the main focus of the paper. Relationships between the different entropy functions used to measure complexity are examined; and intrinsic (e.g., classical measures) and extrinsic (e.g., Körner entropy) variants of entropy-based models are discussed in some detail.


Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, And Dynamics Of English Borrowings In A German Hip Hop Forum, Matt Garley, Julia Hockenmaier Jan 2012

Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, And Dynamics Of English Borrowings In A German Hip Hop Forum, Matt Garley, Julia Hockenmaier

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We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a German-language Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake.


An Assessment Of Strategies For Choosing Between Competitive Marketplaces, Tim Miller, Jinzhong Niu Jan 2012

An Assessment Of Strategies For Choosing Between Competitive Marketplaces, Tim Miller, Jinzhong Niu

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Traders that operate in markets with multiple competing marketplaces must often choose with which marketplace they will trade. These choices encourage marketplaces to seek competitive advantages against each other by adjusting various parameters, such as the price they charge, or how they match buyers and sellers. Traders can take advantage of this competition to improve utility. However, appropriate strategies must be used to decide with which marketplace a trader should shout. In this paper, we assess several different solutions to the problem of marketplace selection by running simulations of double auctions using the JCAT platform. The parameter spaces of these …


A Grey-Box Approach To Automated Mechanism Design, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Xin Yao, Maria Fasli Jan 2012

A Grey-Box Approach To Automated Mechanism Design, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Xin Yao, Maria Fasli

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This paper presents an approach to automated mechanism design in the domain of double auctions. We describe a novel parameterized space of double auctions, and then introduce an evolutionary search method that searches this space of parameters. The approach evaluates auction mechanisms using the framework of the TAC Market Design Game and relates the performance of the markets in that game to their constituent parts using reinforcement learning. Experiments show that the strongest mechanisms we found using this approach not only win the Market Design Game against known, strong opponents, but also exhibit desirable economic properties when they run in …


Tr-2012002: Randomized Matrix Methods For Real And Complex Polynomial Root-Finding, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012002: Randomized Matrix Methods For Real And Complex Polynomial Root-Finding, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012005: Randomized Matrix Computations, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012005: Randomized Matrix Computations, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012008: Randomized Matrix Computations Iii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012008: Randomized Matrix Computations Iii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012014: More On The Power Of Randomized Matrix Multiplication, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2012

Tr-2012014: More On The Power Of Randomized Matrix Multiplication, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012015: Randomized Matrix Methods For Real And Complex Polynomial Root-Finding, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012015: Randomized Matrix Methods For Real And Complex Polynomial Root-Finding, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Re-Engineering Ccny's Business Process Of The Non-Tax Levy Disbursements Requisitions, Ferguson Rodley Jan 2012

Re-Engineering Ccny's Business Process Of The Non-Tax Levy Disbursements Requisitions, Ferguson Rodley

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012001: Algebraic Algorithms, Ioannis Z. Emiris, Victor Y. Pan, Elias P. Tsigaridas Jan 2012

Tr-2012001: Algebraic Algorithms, Ioannis Z. Emiris, Victor Y. Pan, Elias P. Tsigaridas

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012003: Root-Finding And Root-Refining For A Polynomial Equation, Victor Y. Pan Jan 2012

Tr-2012003: Root-Finding And Root-Refining For A Polynomial Equation, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012004: Solving Linear Systems Of Equations With Randomization, Augmentation And Aggregation, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2012

Tr-2012004: Solving Linear Systems Of Equations With Randomization, Augmentation And Aggregation, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012006: Randomized Matrix Computations Ii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012006: Randomized Matrix Computations Ii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012007: Solving Linear Systems Of Equations With Randomization, Augmentation And Aggregation Ii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2012

Tr-2012007: Solving Linear Systems Of Equations With Randomization, Augmentation And Aggregation Ii, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012009: Randomized Matrix Computations Iv, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng Jan 2012

Tr-2012009: Randomized Matrix Computations Iv, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian, Ai-Long Zheng

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012010: Explicit Generic Common Knowledge, Evangelia Antonakos Jan 2012

Tr-2012010: Explicit Generic Common Knowledge, Evangelia Antonakos

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012011: Binding Modalities, Sergei N. Artemov, Tatiana Yavorskaya (Sidon) Jan 2012

Tr-2012011: Binding Modalities, Sergei N. Artemov, Tatiana Yavorskaya (Sidon)

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012012: Condition Estimation By Means Of Power Method, Victor Y. Pan Jan 2012

Tr-2012012: Condition Estimation By Means Of Power Method, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012013: Condition Numbers Of Random Toeplitz And Circulant Matrices, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2012

Tr-2012013: Condition Numbers Of Random Toeplitz And Circulant Matrices, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2012016: More On The Power Of Randomized Matrix Multiplication I, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2012

Tr-2012016: More On The Power Of Randomized Matrix Multiplication I, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Mba: A Market-Based Approach To Data Allocation And Migration For Cloud Database, Tengjiao Wang, Ziyu Lin, Bishan Yang, Allen Huang, Dongqing Yang, Qi Zhang, Shiwei Tang, Jinzhong Niu Jan 2012

Mba: A Market-Based Approach To Data Allocation And Migration For Cloud Database, Tengjiao Wang, Ziyu Lin, Bishan Yang, Allen Huang, Dongqing Yang, Qi Zhang, Shiwei Tang, Jinzhong Niu

Publications and Research

With the coming shift to cloud computing, cloud database is emerging to provide database service over the Internet. In the cloud-based environment, data are distributed at internet scale and the system needs to handle a huge number of user queries simultaneously without delay. How data are distributed among the servers has a crucial impact on the query load distribution and the system response time. In this paper, we propose a market-based control method, called MBA, to achieve query load balance via reasonable data distribution. In MBA, database nodes are treated as traders in a market, and certain market rules are …


Ackad Uses Power Computers To Solve Problems, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Ackad Uses Power Computers To Solve Problems, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Rapid Decoding Of Digital Data Streams Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Andrew Hernandez Jan 2012

Rapid Decoding Of Digital Data Streams Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Andrew Hernandez

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Developing A Comprehensive Software Toolkit For Creating Digital Mosaic Artwork, Dmitry Bosikov Jan 2012

Developing A Comprehensive Software Toolkit For Creating Digital Mosaic Artwork, Dmitry Bosikov

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Cross-Talk: A Shared Parameter Space For Gesturally Extended Human/Machine Improvisation, William Brent, Adam James Wilson Jan 2012

Cross-Talk: A Shared Parameter Space For Gesturally Extended Human/Machine Improvisation, William Brent, Adam James Wilson

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This paper describes Cross-talk, a piece of music and performance system for two instruments augmented with infrared motion-tracking capability, and an artificial software improviser. Cross-talk was commissioned by the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, for the 13th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology. The work is part of an ongoing collaboration focused on developing integrated hardware and software performance systems to extend the timbral and expressive capabilities of traditional musical instruments and to generate musical structure in response to information retrieved from human performers in real-time. Artistic motivations and prior related work are presented here, along …


Parallel Trie-Based Frequent Itemset Mining On Graphics Processors, Jay Junjie Yao Jan 2012

Parallel Trie-Based Frequent Itemset Mining On Graphics Processors, Jay Junjie Yao

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Context Awareness And Discovery For Helping The Blind, Martin Goldberg Jan 2012

Context Awareness And Discovery For Helping The Blind, Martin Goldberg

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Multimedia Content-Based Indexing And Recognition In Digital Libraries, Steven Medina Jan 2012

Multimedia Content-Based Indexing And Recognition In Digital Libraries, Steven Medina

Dissertations and Theses

"Recognition of digital media is more prevalent in today’s computer culture than ever before. The advent of low cost storage has created a seemingly infinite amount of metadata on the internet, as well as on local machines throughout the world. It is more important than ever to have the capability of quickly and accurately filtering this metadata to find a desired result. Data can be searched using various criteria. For example, text data is searched by analyzing the contents of the text itself. One might execute a search using a method as simple as looking for the ASCII file name, …