We give a survey and a unified presentation of the defect theorem, its generalizations and recent aspects of interest. In its basic form the defect theorem states that if a set of n words satisfies a nontrivial relation, then these words can be expressed simultaneously as products of at most n 1

This paper factors out the common denominator underlying these variants: full decoupling of the communicating entities in time, space, and synchronization. We use these three decoupling dimensions to better identify commonalities and divergences with traditional interaction paradigms. The many

AspectJ-TM is a simple and practical aspect-oriented extension to Java-TM. With just a few new constructs, AspectJ provides support for modular implementation of a range of crosscutting concerns. In AspectJ's dynamic join point model, join points are well-defined points in the execution

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The ideas of information theory are at present stimulating many different areas of psychological inquiry. In providing techniques for quantifying situations which have hitherto been difficult or impossible to quantify, they suggest new and more precise ways of conceptualizing these situations (see

Abstract. Pronto[19] is a middleware system for mobile applications with JMS messaging as a basis in both centralized and decentralized forms. Asynchronous messaging is essential to support reliable communication with mobile devices. An intelligent gateway and smart caching in Pronto support the construction of distributed messaging systems over JMS servers. The main aim of Pronto is to support a reliable and efficient message flow from data source to consumers by applying and comparing different techniques. Pronto provides a solution for mobile application specific problems such as resource constraints, network characteristics, and data optimization, which achieves high reliability in end-to-end communication. 1

assumptions now standard within the Government-Binding (GB) framework. The central empirical problem addressed is the question of the proper analysis of the so-called \Poss-ing " gerund in English. This construction possesses simultaneously many properties of sentences, and many properties of noun

-parameterized fashion for high performance. Trace-driven simulations show that with the appropriate cost definition, GreedyDual-Size outperforms existing web cache replacement algorithms in many aspects, including hit ratios, latency reduction and network cost reduction. In addition, GreedyDual-Size can potentially

-propagation learning algorithm. The model simulates many aspects of human performance, including (a) differences between words in terms of processing difficulty, (b) pronunciation of novel items, (c) differences between readers in terms of word recognition skill, (d) transitions from beginning to skilled reading

applications, discuss many aspects of our design, and report measurements from both micro-benchmarks and real world use. Categories and Subject Descriptors D [4]: 3—Distributed file systems