Crete was the birthplace of several ancient writings, including the Cretan Hieroglyphs, the Linear A and the Linear B scripts. Out of these three only Linear B is deciphered. The sound values of the Cretan Hieroglyph and the Linear A symbols are unknown and attempts to reconstruct them based on Linear B have not been fruitful. In this paper, we compare the ancient Cretan scripts with four other...

Statically parsing shell scripts is, due to various peculiarities of the shell language, a challenge. One of the difficulties is that the shell language is designed to be executed by intertwining reading chunks of syntax with semantic actions. We have analyzed a corpus of 31.521 POSIX shell scripts occurring as maintainer scripts in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Our parser, which makes use...

This paper reports on the generation of coherent multimodal output of an embodied conversational character in a 3D game setting. In our implementation, we employ a hierarchical two-tiered approach that supports the designer in creating agent behaviors through scripts. Lower-level scripts define sets of both elementary animations and custom animations, along with their temporal duration. At a hi...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the challenging areas of pattern recognition. It gained popularity among the research community due to its vast application potentials. Extensive research has been done on OCR evidenced by a large number of research articles published in the literature during the last few decades. Most of the research works reported in this area are for Roman, Chine...

Shells, as command interpreters, are the classical way for humans to interact with computing systems, and modern shell features have extended this basic functionality with higher-level programming language constructs. Although implementing compilation in these shell languages is generally unprofitable and intractable, many advantages, such as isolation, filesystem abstraction, security, portabi...

Using scripts to automate common administrative tasks is a ubiquitous practice. Powerful scripting languages and approaches support seemingly 'efficient' scripting practices that actually compromise the robustness of our scripts, as well as indirectly detracting from the stability and maturity of our support infrastructure. This is especially true for scripts that automate complex interactive p...

The use of Web augmentation techniques has an impact on tasks of owners of Web sites, developers of scripts and end-users. Because the Web sites can be modified by external scripts, their owners might lose control about how Web site contents are delivered. To prevent this, they might be tempted to modify the structure of Web pages thus making harder to execute external scripts. However, communi...

Objective. Expert clinical teachers in medicine use teaching scripts. The aim of this study was to determine whether pediatricians also use common components of teaching scripts. Methods. Seventy-three pediatric clerkship directors identified anticipated errors and teaching points in response to two short vignettes. The content analysis of responses, which we completed, was analyzed by rank and...

Dividable Dynamic Timeline (DDTL) was proposed in our previous work to address the non-deterministic temporal behavior in SMIL2.0 scripts. This paper presents the mechanisms for the reuse of SMIL2.0 scripts in authoring a new presentation. To reuse a SMIL2.0 script, the script must be converted to elements in DDTL. By the reuse of existing SMIL2.0 scripts and the flexible features of DDTL, an e...