Narratives play a significant role in many computer games, and this is especially true in genres such as role-playing and adventure games. Even so, many games have narratives which possess a certain number of flaws that can deteriorate the playing…

This thesis presents three trie organizations for various binary tries. The new trie structures have two distinctive features: (1) they store no pointers and require two bits per node in the worst case, and (2) they partition tries into pages…

Software reuse is concerned with capturing software components in some form and then applying them to the construction of another application. The ultimate goals of software reuse are: to improve the quality of software produced; reduce the costs of software…

We consider a nonlinear mathematical program, with twice continuously differentiable functions., If a point x$ sb0$ does not satisfy a certain Second Order Sufficient Condition (SOS) for optimality (that does not require any constraint qualification, see, e.g., BEN-ISRAEL, BEN-TAL and…