Writing in English might be one of the most difficult tasks for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners. This paper presents FLOW, a writing assistance system. It is built based on first-language-oriented input function and context sensitive approach, aiming at providing immediate and appropriate suggestions including translations, paraphrases, and n-grams during composing and revising pro...

This paper describes an approach to the integration and control of task oriented processes within a task achieving architecture. Tightly coupled low-level processes are expressed as transformations mapping an input into an output space. In perceptual processing these transformations correspond to the operation of virtual sensors, in the sensori-motor loop they correspond more closely to reactiv...

A parachute simulation environment (PSE) has been developed that aims to take advantage of legacy parachute simulation codes and modern object-oriented programming techniques. This hybrid simulation environment provides the parachute analyst with a natural and intuitive way to construct simulation tasks while preserving the pedigree and authority of established parachute simulations. NASA curre...

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Aspect-oriented approaches have recently been proposed to address the problem of specifying dynamic object-based systems, by depicting the various roles of the objects separately. In this paper, we consider an approach based on the observable behavior of objects and propose a specification formalism for reusable object interfaces with input/output-driven assumption-guarantee predicates. The for...

One fundamental issue in service-oriented computing concerns the question whether services can be composed in a manner that allows them to achieve their individual goals. In this paper we use a variant of interface automata as an abstraction of the input/output behaviour of services, which are themselves represented as terms in the π-calculus extended with an action for expressing service colla...

Scheduling is an important issue that must be handled carefully to realize the “Just login to compute” principle introduced by computational grids. Current grid schedulers suffer from the haste problem, which is the inability to schedule all tasks successfully. Accordingly, some tasks fail to complete execution as they are allocated to unsuitable workers. Others may not start execution as suita...