Abstract Rate-setting is a problematic area for newcomers to translation and established practitioners alike. Survey data generally support the view that translators feel underpaid money matters remain chief ethical pragmatic concern, but appropriate guidance almost entirely absent from introductory textbooks on profession documentation prepared by industry associations remains unsatisfactory. ...

In the context of online role-playing games, we evaluate offloading AI computation from game servers to game clients. In this way, the aggregate resources of thousands of participating client machines can enhance game realism in a way that would be prohibitively expensive on a central server. Because offloading can add significant latency to a computation normally executing within a game server...

Component software, distribution, and the use of clusters of workstations are all key trends in today's technology. Little attention has been paid, however, to the network bandwidth required for data intensive applications. In the context of databases, much work has been done in parallelization strategies for monolithic architectures with dedicated, specialized networks or over disk arrays. We ...

Web crawlers generate signi cant loads on Web servers, and are diÆcult to operate. Instead of running crawlers at many \client" sites, we propose a central crawler and Web repository that then multicasts appropriate subsets of the central repository to clients. Loads at Web servers are reduced because a single crawler visits the servers, as opposed to all the client crawlers. In this paper we m...

Application developers in SAS environments regularly face the question about what tool to use to build the client-based user interface of their client-server applications. These are environments where: (1) the data is in server-based SAS data sets, (2) the primary processing is done with server-based SAS Software applications that cover file management, analysis, and reporting, and (3) the user...

As organizations increasingly move mainframe-based applications to client/server platforms, Information Systems managers and their staffs face the task of selecting one of several client/server operating environments, including UNIX, Novell Inc.'s NetWare, and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Microsoft New Technology operating system. The selection process is further complicated because both client an...