There are many examples of extreme climate variations on decadal timescales, many of which are associated with human death and misery. Perhaps the most striking in recent decades is the decadal timescale drought in the Sahel (leading, for example, to the remarkable Band-Aid Concerts). Other decadal-timescale droughts, such as the “dust-bowl” drought in the Southern US in the 1930s, are infamous...

With this position paper we want to make a case for the relevance of the ideas of multidimensional separation of concerns at the architectural level. Traditional approaches towards software architecture seem to take for granted that a software system exhibits a single software architecture, of which the elements map more or less directly to design or implementation-level components. We claim th...

In a two-photon femtosecond laser system of three-dimensional micro-fabrication, a model of micro-device is fabricated layer by layer along its contours of cross-sections. So it is necessary to generate cutting path. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm to generate cutting path which is a series of ordered contour points on each cross-section of a model. Keyword. Micro-fabrication, ...

To what extent do online discussion spaces expose participants to political talk and to cross-cutting political views in particular? Drawing on a representative national sample of over 1000 Americans reporting participation in chat rooms or message boards, we examine the types of online discussion spaces that create opportunities for cross-cutting political exchanges. Our findings suggest that ...

In aspect-oriented programming, we can encapsulate cross-cutting concerns scattered over many modules in a system. There are many studies for detecting candidates of cross-cutting concerns called aspect mining, and automation of it. However, existing all aspect mining tools are batch processing system aiming for large systems. Compared with existing batch-type tools, this paper propose an onlin...

A number of approaches have been proposed to achieve separation of concerns. Although all these approaches form suitable candidates for separating cross-cutting concerns in a system, one approach can be more suitable for implementing certain types of concerns as compared to the others. This paper proposes a hybrid approach to separation of concerns. The approach is based on using the most suita...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) offers new insights and tools for the modular development of systems with cross-cutting features. Current tool support for AOSD is provided mainly in the form of code-level constructs. This paper presents a way to express cross-cutting features as logical invariants and to use generative techniques to produce the kind of code that is usually written m...

Cutting force measurement is a quintessential task for status monitoring during machining. In the past, a number of cutting force sensors have been developed, each featuring a different set of performance advantages. In a pursuit to improve the measuring sensitivity and reduce the cross-interference error, in this paper we propose a triaxial cutting force sensor based on a commercial micro-elec...

As object-oriented programs evolve, they may suffer from the “tyranny of dominant decomposition”: The program can be modularised only one way at a time, leaving cross-cutting concerns scattered across many modules and tangled with one another. Aspectoriented programming (AOP) tries to remedy this by encapsulating these concerns into aspects. Aspect mining identifies such cross-cutting concerns ...