Multiplayer online games form complex semiotic ecologies that include game-generated texts, player-to-player communication and collaboration, and associated websites that support in-game play. This article describes an exploratory study of the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) World of Warcraft (WoW), with specific attention to its qualities as a setting for second language (L2) use and d...

Organizations operating Root DNS servers report loads exceeding 100 million queries per day. Given the design goals of the DNS, and what we know about today’s Internet, this number is about two orders of magnitude more than we would expect. With the assistance of one root server operator, we took a 24-hour trace of queries arriving at one of the thirteen root servers. In this paper we analyze t...

When code switching, individuals incorporate elements of multiple languages into the same utterance. While code switching has been studied extensively in formal and spoken contexts, its behavior and prevalence remains unexamined in many newer forms of electronic communication. The present study examines code switching in Twitter, focusing on instances where an author writes a post in one langua...

This paper summarizes the goals and presents the results of our ongoing research and development project, called “In the Web of Words” (WOW), funded by the National R+D Program in Hungary. The project aims at creating a complex search interface that incorporates — beside the usual keyword-based search functionality—deep web search, Hungarian natural language (NL) question processing, image sear...

Non-volatile write-back caches enable storage controllers to provide quick write response times by hiding the latency of the disks. Managing a write cache well is critical to the performance of storage controllers. Over two decades, various algorithms have been proposed, including the most popular, LRW, CSCAN, and WOW. While LRW leverages temporal locality in the workload, and CSCAN creates spa...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first like to thank my family especially my parents for instilling at a very young age the many important lessons and positive aspects of life, which plays a crucial role in who I am today. I would also like to give special thanks to my friends, who gave me a lot of help in completing my research and also to The Public Service Department and U.S.M. for the sponsorship of...

This article aims to find out how the collaborative practices that occur between Provincial Government of Special Region Yogyakarta (DIY) and Singapore International Foundation (SIF) in field education. DIY is a province known as "City Education", but reality, there are still several layers society need attention terms education, especially since level reading literacy low. Therefore, it import...