The speculative execution of critical sections, whether done using HTM via the transactional lock elision pattern or using a software solution such as STM or a sequence lock, has the potential to improve software performance with minimal programmer effort. The technique improves performance by allowing critical sections to proceed in parallel as long as they do not conflict at run time. In this...

This paper investigates the extent to which segmental substitutions traditionally attributed to articulatory weakening and strengthening through changes in constriction degree are, in fact, caused by aerodynamic, perceptual or other articulatory mechanisms. For that purpose the articulatory, acoustic and distributional characteristics of consonants participating in the implementation of several...

The Hybrid Learning System (HLS) inductively learns concepts and is a hybrid of a genetic classiier system and a similarity-based learner. Its basic structure is a genetic algorithm that applies a local search operator to population members. This study compares ID3, a standard genetic classifer system, and HLS for accuracy and concept conciseness on a variety of problem domains with and without...

Mobile communication is experiencing significant growth: the domain has been completely reshaped since the launch of the Apple iPhone (June 2007) and the ensuing development of so-called “smart phones.” Furthermore, together with the expansion of new mobile artifacts, mobile application markets (such as Apple iTunes Store and Android Google Play market) have contributed to the diffusion of new ...

The UML suggests the employment of use cases for capturing the requirements and for specifying the interaction between the users and the system being modeled. Use cases are easily understood by users since they are essentially textual descriptions, but lack the precision and the conciseness accomplished by the other diagrammatic tools of UML. Besides, there is no systematic method that helps th...

The present study investigates the implantation of political science terminology approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) in the Hamshahri corpus made up of news text from Hamshahri newspaper and their acceptability among MA students of English translation studies (ETS), English literature (EL), and Political science (PS). To conduct this research the frequencies of the...