Adequate error-handling code is essential to the reliability of any system. On an error, such code is responsible for releasing acquired resources to restore the system to a viable state. Missing resource-release operations can lead to system crashes, memory leaks and deadlocks. A number of approaches have been proposed to detect such problems, but they mainly target frequently occurring resour...

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In life, the paths we choose are influenced by our day-today experiences and the people we meet. Career choices are no different. As a pediatrician and academic, I am not infrequently asked how I became interested in working with the transgender community and doing academic work with this population. An openly gay man, many wrongfully assume that my interest and devotion stem from an identity a...

Abstract. The aim of this contribution is to present a new, however rapidly developing domain of statistics – functional data analysis (FDA). A particular problem of extending multivariate regression to the functional setting is discussed. First of all, two real data sets and connected problems are presented. Multivariate regression is briefly recalled focusing mainly on the case of strongly co...

In this paper, we deal with extraction of textual information from scene images. So far, the task of Scene Text Recognition (STR) has only been focusing on recognition of isolated words and, for simplicity, it omits words which are too short. Such an approach is not suitable for further processing of the extracted text. We define a new task which aims at extracting coherent blocks of text from ...

Rich Internet Applications offer Web surfers a richer user experience, mainly due to better responsiveness and enhanced user interface capabilities. In recent years, existing design methodologies targeting traditional Web 1.0 applications were extended to also support RIAs. These extensions do not yet cover all design concerns typically encountered in state-of-the-art Web applications. One yet ...

Structured machine-readable representations of news articles can radically change the way we interact with information. One step towards obtaining these representations is event extraction the identification of event triggers and arguments in text. With previous approaches mainly focusing on classifying events into a small set of predefined types, we analyze unsupervised techniques for complex ...