This paper describes the zJava compiler infrastructure, a high-level framework for the analysis and transformation of Java programs. This framework provides a robust system, guaranteeing under transformations both the consistency of its internal structure and the syntactic correctness of the represented code. We address several challenges unique to Java, which have not been addressed by earlier...

This paper proposes a design and structure of script language which is intended for easy description and prototyping of high-level image processing operations. The image operations are meant to be composed from basic building blocks represented by either C/C++ functions or appropriate block connections in FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) circuits. The proposed language is designed for use i...

Rapid prototyping is a viable engineering technique to explore and validate desirable system characteristics of software products in a flexible and agile manner. Dynamic programming languages with their emphasis on developer productivity and software quality provide a good fit for the required programming approach. However, with the exception of Scheme or Smalltalk, these languages are seldom u...

Rapid expansions of new location-based services signify the need for finding accurate localization techniques for indoor environments. Among different techniques, RSS-based  schemes and in particular oneof its variants which is based on Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (G-SSL) are widely-used approaches The superiority of this scheme is that it has low setup/training cost and at the same ti...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are emerging as powerful platforms for distributed embedding computing. Currently, flexible frameworks and middlewares are emerging to facilitate WSN application development which is usually very applicationspecific and involves the programming of low-level mechanisms for enabling sensing, communication and energy saving. SPINE is a domain-specific framework for ...

In this paper we propose a language-driven approach for the high-level design of interactive applications architected according to the model-view-controller pattern. The approach is especially well-suited for applications that incorporate contents with sophisticated structures, and whose interactive behavior is driven by these structures. In our approach we characterize the structure of the con...

Previous evidence has shown that word pairs that are either related in form (e.g., ruc-berro; donkey-watercress) or very closely semantically related (e.g., ruc-caballo, donkey-horse) produce interference effects in a translation recognition task (Ferré et al., 2006; Guasch et al., 2008). However, these effects are not observed when the words have a less close semantic relation (e.g., ruc-oso, ...

The Functional Rent Advisor (FRA) is an intelligent Inter-net application that allows calculating an estimate of the fair rent for a at in Munich. The FRA is a re-implementation of the Munich Rent Advisor FA96] using the high-level purely functional language Haskell. This paper shows that Haskell is appropriate to realize non-trivial Inter-net applications. Simplicity, exibility and rapid proto...

In this paper, we propose wear-UCAM, which is a toolkit for Unified Context-aware Application Model in wearable computing. As the rapid developments of mobile technologies and relevant technologies, the interests in wearable computing also become popular in both academic and industrial fields. Unfortunately there are few research activities on the application toolkit for wearable computing to s...