Understanding and controlling polymorphism

Understanding and Controlling Software Costs

Section 2, the main portion of the paper, discusses the two primary ways of understanding software costs. The "black-box" or influence-function approach provides useful experimental and observational insights on the relative software productivity and quality leverage of various management, technical, environmental, and personnel options. The "glass-box" or cost distribution approach helps ident...

Controlling and Understanding Self-Assembly

Controlling Inference in Story Understanding

SAM r e a d s s t o r i e s l i k e t h i s by i n t r o d u c i n g a f r a m e l i k e d a t a s t r u c t u r e c a l l e d a S c r i p t [ 2 ] when the f i r s t sen tence i s a n a l y z e d , and b y f i n d i n g subsequent i n p u t s i n t h i s c o n t e x t v i a t he e x p e c t a t i o n s t h a t a r e p r o g r e s s i v e l y a r o u s e d . The r e c o g n i t i o n p rocess i ...

Understanding & Controlling LPCs in CMP

The overall trend is that more and more device layers in the fab as well as more and more wafer-level packaging flows require CMP steps for overall process integration. From high-k metal-gate (HKMG) CMOS transistors for 45nm and beyond, to through-silicon vias (TSV) for heterogeneous 3D integration, cleverly engineered substrates such as stressed-silicon-on-insulator (sSOI) and silicon-on-diamo...

Understanding and controlling the bone-implant interface.

A goal of current implantology research is to design devices that induce controlled, guided, and rapid healing. In addition to acceleration of normal wound healing phenomena, endosseous implants should result in formation of a characteristic interfacial layer and bone matrix with adequate biomechanical properties. To achieve these goals, however, a better understanding of events at the interfac...