In this paper, we propose to design an easy to use physics application programming interface (PHI) with support for pluggable physics library. The goal is to create physically realistic 3D graphics environments and integrate real-time physics simulation into games seamlessly with advanced features, such as interactive character simulation and vehicle dynamics. The actual implementation of the s...

MOTIVATION Dasty3 is a highly interactive and extensible Web-based framework. It provides a rich Application Programming Interface upon which it is possible to develop specialized clients capable of retrieving information from DAS sources as well as from data providers not using the DAS protocol. Dasty3 provides significant improvements on previous Web-based frameworks and is implemented using ...

In application server systems, such as J2EE, replication is an essential strategy for reliability and efficiency. Many J2EE implementations, both commercial and open-source, provide some replication support. However, the range of possible strategies is wide, and the choice of the best one, depending on the expected application profile, remains an open research question. To support research in t...

SUMMARY A tool to predict the effect that newly discovered genomic variants have on known transcripts is indispensible in prioritizing and categorizing such variants. In Ensembl, a web-based tool (the SNP Effect Predictor) and API interface can now functionally annotate variants in all Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes supported species. AVAILABILITY The Ensembl SNP Effect Predictor can be accessed...

offshore jacket-type towers are steel structures designed and constructed in marine environments for various purposes such as oil exploration and exploitation units, oceanographic research, and undersea testing. in this paper a newly developed meta-heuristic algorithm, namely cyclical parthenogenesis algorithm (cpa), is utilized for sizing optimization of a jacket-type offshore structure. the a...

This work presents a toolchain based on the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) standard for accelarating the adoption of model-based Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) algorithms. The presented toolchain uses nonlinear state estimation techniques to detect multiple simultaneous faults in presence of noisy sensor measurements. The toolchain enables the use of a dynamic model that emulates corr...

API error-handling specifications are often not documented, necessitating automated specification mining. Automated mining of error-handling specifications is challenging for procedural languages such as C, which lack explicit exception-handling mechanisms. Due to the lack of explicit exception handling, error-handling code is often scattered across different procedures and files making it diff...

We present DIVERSE, a highly modular collection of complimentary software packages designed to facilitate the creation of device independent virtual environments. DIVERSE is free/open source software, containing both end-user programs and C++ APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). DgiPf is the DIVERSE graphics interface to OpenGL PerformerTM. A program using DgiPf can run on platforms rangi...

This paper proposes the introduction of a Service Platform for the creation, execution and management of multimedia services in heterogeneous networks. Examining the business-roles, the actors in the Service Platform are identified. Furthermore several common building blocks for developing services for the Internet are described and a brief overview of some modern technologies for an object-ori...