Software - Practice and Experience (SPE), Volume 38, 2008

Volume 38, Number 1, January 2008

• Mikiko Nishikimi, K. Handa, Naoto Takahashi, S. Tomura:
  When fonts do not know everything: an extensible system for multilingual text rendering. 1-31
  
• Antonio Cunei, Jan Vitek:
  An efficient and flexible toolkit for composing customized method dispatchers. 33-73
  
• Hai-Feng Guo, Gopal Gupta:
  Simplifying dynamic programming via mode-directed tabling. 75-94
  
• Damianos Chatziantoniou, Achilleas Anagnostopoulos:
  A session-oriented approach in modeling hierarchies of streams. 95-115
  

Volume 38, Number 2, February 2008

• Sajjad Mahmood, Richard Lai:
  A complexity measure for UML component-based system specification. 117-134
  
• Christopher W. Armstrong, Rupert W. Ford, T. L. Freeman, Graham D. Riley:
  NOAH: A CSP-based language for describing the behaviour of coupled models. 135-159
  
• Daniel Gomes, Mário J. Silva:
  The Viúva Negra crawler: an experience report. 161-188
  
• Paolo Ferragina, Antonio Gulli:
  A personalized search engine based on Web-snippet hierarchical clustering. 189-225
  

Volume 38, Number 3, March 2008

• Rahul Nagpal, Y. N. Srikant:
  Pragmatic integrated scheduling for clustered VLIW architectures. 227-257
  
• Ladislau Bölöni, Linus J. Luotsinen, Joakim N. Ekblad, T. Ryan Fitz-Gibbon, Charles Andrew Houchin, Justin Logan Key, Majid Ali Khan, Jin Lyu, Johann Nguyen, Rex R. Oleson, Gary Stein, Scott A. Vander Weide, Viet Trinh:
  A comparison study of 12 paradigms for developing embodied agents. 259-305
  
• Guy Tremblay, F. Guérin, A. Pons, Aziz Salah:
  Oto, a generic and extensible tool for marking programming assignments. 307-333
  

Volume 38, Number 4, April 2008

• Jonathan Cooper, Steve McKeever:
  A model-driven approach to automatic conversion of physical units. 337-359
  
• Miguel P. Monteiro, João M. Fernandes:
  An illustrative example of refactoring object-oriented source code with aspect-oriented mechanisms. 361-396
  
• Sam Jansen, Anthony McGregor:
  Static virtualization of C source code. 397-416
  
• David E. Goldschmidt, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy:
  Comparing keyword search to semantic search: a case study in solving crossword puzzles using the Google^TM API. 417-445
  

Volume 38, Number 5, 25 April 2008

• Andrés Terrasa, Agustín Espinosa, Ana García-Fornes:
  Lightweight POSIX tracing. 447-469
  
• Srdan Skrbic, Dusan Surla:
  Bibliographic records editor in XML native environment. 471-491
  
• A. J. Kemball, R. M. Crutcher, Ragib Hasan:
  A component-based framework for radio-astronomical imaging software systems. 493-507
  
• W. Van Snyder:
  The benefits of posing application software as a language interpreter. 509-522
  
• Cristian Mateos, Alejandro Zunino, Marcelo Campo:
  A survey on approaches to gridification. 523-556
  

Volume 38, Number 6, May 2008

• Vassilios Karakoidas, Diomidis Spinellis:
  FIRE/J - optimizing regular expression searches with generative programming. 557-573
  
• R. P. Cook:
  An introduction to the NASA Shuttle ground operations simulator (SGOS). 575-587
  
• Roman Dementiev, Lutz Kettner, Peter Sanders:
  STXXL: standard template library for XXL data sets. 589-637
  
• HariGovind V. Ramasamy, Prashant Pandey, Michel Cukier, William H. Sanders:
  Experiences with building an intrusion-tolerant group communication system. 639-666
  

Volume 38, Number 7, June 2008

• Zhongqiang Chen, Peter Wei, Alex Delis:
  Catching Remote Administration Trojans (RATs). 667-703
  
• Hervé Paulino, Luís M. B. Lopes:
  A programming language for service-oriented computing with mobile agents. 705-734
  
• Robert S. Laramee:
  Comparing and evaluating computer graphics and visualization software. 735-760
  
• Jing-Chao Chen:
  Symmetry Partition Sort. 761-773
  

Volume 38, Number 8, 10 July 2008

• Julien Allali, Marie-France Sagot:
  A multiple layer model to compare RNA secondary structures. 775-792
  
• Srikumar Venugopal, Krishna Nadiminti, Hussein Gibbins, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Designing a resource broker for heterogeneous grids. 793-825
  
• Sang Seok Lim, Jong Hyuk Choi, Kurt D. Zeilenga:
  Design, implementation, and performance analysis of PKI certificate repository using LDAP Component Matching. 827-851
  
• Ian Gorton, Yan Liu, Nihar Trivedi:
  An extensible and lightweight architecture for adaptive server applications. 853-883
  

Volume 38, Number 9, 25 July 2008

• Hein Meling, Alberto Montresor, Bjarne E. Helvik, Özalp Babaoglu:
  Jgroup/ARM: a distributed object group platform with autonomous replication management. 885-923
  
• Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pazos Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Manuel Ramos Cabrer, Martín López Nores, Jorge García Duque, Ana Fernández Vilas, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Jesús Bermejo Muñoz:
  An MHP framework to provide intelligent personalized recommendations about digital TV contents. 925-960
  
• Qi Chen, John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking:
  SUMLOW: early design-stage sketching of UML diagrams on an E-whiteboard. 961-994
  

Volume 38, Number 10, August 2008

• Miguel Masmano, Ismael Ripoll, Jorge Real, Alfons Crespo, Andy J. Wellings:
  Implementation of a constant-time dynamic storage allocator. 995-1026
  
• Przemyslaw Skibinski, Szymon Grabowski, Jakub Swacha:
  Effective asymmetric XML compression. 1027-1047
  
• Hua Zhang, Joohan Lee, Ratan K. Guha:
  VCluster: a thread-based Java middleware for SMP and heterogeneous clusters with thread migration support. 1049-1071
  
• Hui Wu, Jeff Gray, Marjan Mernik:
  Grammar-driven generation of domain-specific language debuggers. 1073-1103
  

Volume 38, Number 11, September 2008

• Ioana Cutcutache, Weng-Fai Wong:
  Fast, frequency-based, integrated register allocation and instruction scheduling. 1105-1126
  
• Chung-Ming Huang, Ming-Sian Lin, Hon-Long Wong:
  A ubiquitous IAs access platform (UIAP) over UPnP. 1127-1147
  
• Caroline Appert, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon:
  SwingStates: adding state machines to Java and the Swing toolkit. 1149-1182
  
• Joseph Fong, Herbert Shiu, Davy Cheung:
  A relational-XML data warehouse for data aggregation with SQL and XQuery. 1183-1213
  

Volume 38, Number 12, October 2008

• Akiyoshi Sugiki, Kenji Kono, Hideya Iwasaki:
  Tuning mechanisms for two major parameters of Apache web servers. 1215-1240
  
• Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Massimiliano Margarone, Alessandro De Gloria:
  oDect: an RFID-based object detection API to support applications development on mobile devices. 1241-1259
  
• Joefon Jann, Niteesh Dubey, Pratap Pattnaik, R. Sarma Burugula:
  Effectiveness of multiple pageable page sizes for commercial applications. 1261-1272
  
• Martin P. Ward, Hussein Zedan, Matthias Ladkau, Stefan Natelberg:
  Conditioned semantic slicing for abstraction; industrial experiment. 1273-1304
  
• Jean Bovet, Terence Parr:
  ANTLRWorks: an ANTLR grammar development environment. 1305-1332
  

Volume 38, Number 13, 10 November 2008

• Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Giuseppe Scanniello, Genoveffa Tortora:
  Developing legacy system migration methods and tools for technology transfer. 1333-1364
  
• Cidiane Lobato, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  An aspect-oriented software architecture for code mobility. 1365-1392
  
• Pablo Sendín-Raña, Nicolás Otero-Alonso, Vicente Goyanes de Miguel, Francisco J. González-Castaño, Pedro S. Rodríguez-Hernández, Felipe J. Gil-Castiñeira, Enrique Costa-Montenegro:
  Emulating Access Grid features at Web endpoints: a developer's view. 1393-1410
  
• D. Janakiram, Ashok Gunnam, N. Suneetha, Vineet Rajani, K. Vinay Kumar Reddy:
  Object-oriented wrappers for the Linux kernel. 1411-1427
  
• Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Gonzalo Navarro, José R. Paramá:
  New adaptive compressors for natural language text. 1429-1450
  

Volume 38, Number 14, 25 November 2008

• Florent Nicart:
  Towards scalable virtuality in C++. 1451-1473
  
• Yuehua Lin, Jeff Gray, Jing Zhang, Steven Nordstrom, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Sandeep Neema, Swapna S. Gokhale:
  Model replication: transformations to address model scalability. 1475-1497
  
• Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero, Genoveffa Tortora:
  Migrating legacy video lectures to multimedia learning objects. 1499-1530
  
• Christian Grothoff:
  The Runabout. 1531-1560
  
• Heather Crawford, John Aycock:
  Kwyjibo: automatic domain name generation. 1561-1567
  

Volume 38, Number 15, December 2008

• Munawar Hafiz, Ralph E. Johnson:
  Evolution of the MTA architecture: the impact of security. 1569-1599
  
• M. Antonia Martínez-Carreras, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta:
  Towards interoperability: a wrapper model for integrating remote laboratories in a collaborative discovery learning environment. 1601-1620
  
• R. Clint Whaley, Anthony M. Castaldo:
  Achieving accurate and context-sensitive timing for code optimization. 1621-1642
  
• Gaël Thomas, Nicolas Geoffray, Charles Clément, Bertil Folliot:
  Designing highly flexible virtual machines: the JnJVM experience. 1643-1675