Testing of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) plays a critical role in ensuring a successful deployment in any enterprise. SOA testing must span several levels, from individual services to inter-enterprise federations of systems, and must cover functional and non-functional aspects. SOA unique combination of features, such as run-time discovery of services, ultra-late binding, QoS aware compo...

Animations of American Sign Language (ASL) can make information accessible for many signers with lower levels of English literacy. Automatically synthesizing such animations is challenging because the movements of ASL signs often depend on the context in which they appear, e.g., many ASL verb movements depend on locations in the signing space the signer has associated with the verb’s subject an...

The aim of our research project called DidaTab – Didactics of Spreadsheets – is to get a more comprehensive picture of ICT uses in French schools and to obtain a better knowledge of students’ spreadsheet competencies. The exploratory study of curricula and practices shows very sparse use during secondary education. To achieve a more precise estimation of what students can do with spreadsheets, ...

14:00 Rob Ashmore, The Utility and Practicality of Quantifying Software Reliability 14:15 John Rushby, Bev Littlewood, and Lorenzo Strigini, Evaluating the Assessment of Software Fault-Freeness 14:30 Discussion: Should we be following recipes or quantifying software performance? 14:55 Dewi Daniels, The Efficacy of DO-178B 15:10 Discussion: Can we assess a standard as a whole (much as system-lev...

This paper reports on an exploratory study of the processes involved in the acquisition of new phonetic control regimes in L2 learning. We focus here on the acquisition of long VOT initial stops by French native speakers undergoing production training. Francophone speakers were asked to repeat /ta/ stimuli varying in VOT and burst intensity. The performances in production are assessed through a...

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) recently completed the first phase of its low global warming potential alternative refrigerants evaluation program (Low-GWP AREP). This industry-wide cooperative research program identified and evaluated promising alternative refrigerants’ performance over the past two years. Thirty-eight low-GWP refrigerants were tested during t...

In performance testing of ATM switches and network of switches a variety of connection configurations is needed. In most of the cases, these configurations require one traffic generator and/or analyzer for each switch port. Since this equipment is rather expensive, it is desirable to define scalable configurations that can be used with a limited number of generators. In this paper we present a ...

Online facilitation in a cross-cultural collaborative context is increasingly prevalent, but limited research has been conducted on the related issues, two of which are examined in this paper with reference to the empirical data of an exploratory user trial involving multinational facilitators, students and researchers. Results of our meticulous content analysis of online forum messages and vid...

ATM Forum Document Number: ATM_Forum/99-0045 ************************************************************************ Title: Throughput Fairness Index: An Explanation ************************************************************************ Abstract: The performance testing document uses a particular function to quantify fairness. This contribution explains the reasons for the selection of the p...

************************************************************************ ATM Forum Document Number: ATM_Forum/99-0045 ************************************************************************ Title: Throughput Fairness Index: An Explanation ************************************************************************ Abstract: The performance testing document uses a particular function to quantify fa...