This paper presents a new client-driven pointer analysis algorithm that automatically adjusts its precision in response to the needs of client analyses. We evaluate our algorithm on 18 real C programs, using five significant error detection problems as clients. We compare the accuracy and performance of our algorithm against several commonly-used fixed-precision algorithms. We find that the cli...

In this paper we present an interactive GPU-based, GUI client, working with rendering server employing ray tracing based global illumination. The client is designed to guarantee interactivity (namely 1/60sec response time) no matter how slow the rendering server is. The client dynamically adjusts image resolution to match the server performance and complexity of the rendered scene. When the sce...

Choosing appropriate client architectures is a hotly debated topic of late. Having been party to these debates and also to implementations using all three approaches, it is evident that some of the perceptions surrounding this debate don’t conform to reality. During actual implementation, particularly since the Hybrid approach is a mix of the two other approaches, some benefits and drawbacks in...

Live streaming media applications are becoming more popular each day. Indeed, some important TV channels already broadcast their live content on the Internet. In such scenario, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications are very attractive as platforms to distribute live content to large client populations at low costs. A thorough understanding of how clients of such applications typically behave, particu...

This is a quantitative study of executive coaching to determine the key factors or ‘active ingredients’ which contribute to its effectiveness. Data collected from 156 client–coach pairs participating in formally contracted, external executive coaching was analysed to examine the impact on coaching outcome of the following: client self-efficacy, client personality and client–coach personality ma...

The caching of data and/or locks at client workstations is an eeective technique for improving the performance of a client-server database system. This paper extends an earlier performance study of client-server caching in several ways. The rst is a re-examination of heuristics for deciding dynamically between propagating changes or invalidating remote copies of data pages in order to maintain ...

Thin client compression (TCC) achieves the best compression efficiency for sequences of synthetic images. This paper presents a streaming version of TCC (STCC) that almost fully retains the excellent compression efficiency of the original algorithm. When sending images over low-bandwidth networks, STCC dramatically reduces end-to-end latency by pipelining rows and overlapping the compression, t...

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While highly effective, psychotherapy outcome studies suggest 5-14% of clients worsen while in treatment and that therapists are unable to identify a substantial portion of such cases. Methods to systematically collect feedback from psychotherapy clients are discussed and two systems for monitoring treatment response, feeding back this information, and assisting in problem-solving with such cas...

Personal injury victims involved in compensation processes have a worse recovery than those not involved in compensation processes. One predictor for worse recovery is lawyer engagement. As some people argue that this negative relation between lawyer engagement and recovery may be explained by lawyers' attitude and communications to clients, it seems important to investigate lawyer-client inter...