Java 1.5 will include a type system (called JSR-14) that supports parametric polymorphism, or generic classes. This will bring many benefits to Java programmers, not least because current Java practise makes heavy use of logically-generic classes, including container classes. Translation…

This paper proposes a novel approach on embedding automatic parallelization in compilers. Due to an increasing popularity of multi-processor and multi-core architectures, software must take advantage of the processing power they offer and increase the level of parallelism as much…

by Robert Honway Lee., Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82)., This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives…

This paper describes the new features included in the Robolab 2 System, which permits the students to
work with a simulation of and industrial robot and carry out operations with the real robot through teleoperation.
Among these features, the flexibility…

In this paper a methodology for accesing scientific data repositories on data grids is proposed. This methodology is based on ontology specification and knowledge representation. The concept of Knowledge Perspective is introduced, as the action of applying particular scientific conjectures…