Cross-site scripting attacks are those in which attackers inject malicious code, usually client-side scripts, into web applications from outside sources. Because of the number of possible injection locations and techniques, many applications are vulnerable to this attack method. Scripting attacks differ from other web application vulnerabilities because they attack an application’s users, not a...

Online learning in commercial computer games allows computer-controlled opponents to adapt to human player tactics. For online learning to work in practice, it must be fast, effective, robust, and efficient. This paper proposes a technique called “dynamic scripting” that meets these requirements. In dynamic scripting an adaptive rule-base is used for the generation of intelligent opponents on t...

Management scripts are being used as the major means to realize the powerful concept of management by delegation. Many script delegation frameworks are proposed and experimented with for various network management standards, notably, the SNMP, OSI, and CORBA. More proposals and research are underway. The major problem with these scripting frameworks is that most of these frameworks are, in a se...

Scripting languages such as Perl and Tcl represent a very different style of programming than system programming languages such as C or JavaTM. Scripting languages are designed for “gluing” applications; they use typeless approaches to achieve a higher level of programming and more rapid application development than system programming languages. Increases in computer speed and changes in the ap...

The Simcyp Simulator provides a framework for mechanistic Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic modeling of potentially interacting drugs. It also provides a scripting facility, using the Lua language, for developing customized pharmacodynamic and toxicity models driven by drug concentrations at the site of action. We present an overview of the scripting facility including the s...

Feedback is an important component of interactive learning software. A conclusion from cognitive learning theory is that good software must give the learner more information about what he did. Following the ideas of constructivist learning theory the user should be in control of both the time and the level of feedback he receives. At the same time the feedback system must identify and review di...