Use of third-party libraries is extremely common in application software. The evolve to accommodate new features or mitigate security vulnerabilities, thereby breaking the Application Programming Interface(API) used by Such changes may discourage client code from using library versions keeping vulnerable and not up-to-date. We propose a novel output-oriented program synthesis algorithm automate...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in two of the most popular English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) exam preparation courses in Iran, namely IELTS and TOEFL. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate EFL writing tasks in 3 IELTS and 3...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...

This study aimed to examine the effect of two types of collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ comparative adjectives with two or more syllables. Thirty Iranian EFL learners participated in this study which were then divided into two experimental and one control groups; one experimental group received dictogloss task in 4-pairs and the other experimental group was given text reconst...

If you take a closer look at current service-oriented architectures and their standards like Web-ser­ vices and compare them to other distributed computing approaches, then you will come to the fol­ lowing conclusion: Technically SOC does not provide any new possibilities or solutions which were not already available or implementable with the old approaches. It would be for example not a proble...

certain advantages of service-oriented architecture have led to the spread of this type of architecture around the world. however, some special features of this type of architecture have led to more compromise between the security in the information system and other information systems. the purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the impact of factors and dimensions of the information ...