... results for an LP formulation based on a general class of linear functions (diamond) and a positive class of linear functions (cross) Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Algorithms for ... other LP formulation is based on a positive class of linear functions and yields an LP with fewer variables than the first Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Algorithms for Molecular ... constraints LP formulation: positive class of linear functions An optimization problem with fewer variables than problem (4) can be formulated by considering a weaker class of linear functions For the...
... respect to exact inference for the same set of features Bold indicates the best result for a language As for overall performance, both the exact and relaxed full model outperform the arcfactored model ... constraint matrix (omitted for space) 3.6 Projective Parsing It would be straightforward to adapt the constraints in §3.5 to allow only projective parse trees: np simply force za = for any a ∈ A But there ... summarized in Table 1; for the sake of comparison, we reproduced three strong We used the provided train/test splits except for English, for which we tested on the development partition For training,...
... arithmetic complexity of linear- phase FIR filters with narrow transition bands In this approach, G(z) and Gc (z) have to be even-order linear- phase filters of equal delays and form a complementary ... the For L = 24, it was not possible to decrease the filter orders CONCLUSION This paper introduced an approachfor synthesizing modulated maximally decimated FIR FBs using the FRM technique For ... and δ For the specifications (25)–(27) to be fulfilled, we must find a solution with δ ≤ δ1 The problem is a nonlinear optimization problem and therefore requires a good initial solution For this...
... the off-the-shelf linear kernel SVM algorithm to perform training and testing Besides, to exponential-scaled testing time complexity, we propose a new classification method for speeding up the ... successful kernels for many natural language processing (NLP) problems (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2001; Isozaki and Kazawa, 2002; Nivre et al., 2006) It is known that the dot-product (linear form) represents ... Therefore, we adopt the l2sequences encoding method based on the DFS (depth-first-search) sequence as (Wang et al., 2004) to represent the trees An l2-sequence does not only store the label information...
... at: www.pearsoned.co.uk BELL_A01.QXD 2/2/05 3:20 PM Page iii Software Engineering for Students A ProgrammingApproach Fourth Edition DOUGLAS BELL BELL_A01.QXD 2/2/05 3:20 PM Page iv Pearson Education ... accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, ... W1T 4LP The programs in this book have been included for their instructional value They have been tested with care but are not guaranteed for any particular purpose The publisher does not offer...
... person months of human effort One of the attractions of software engineering is that there is no one single best method for doing it, but instead a whole variety of different approaches Consequently ... contents 26 330 26.1 26.2 26.3 27 Agile methods and extreme programming 330 330 332 335 336 336 336 Introduction The agile manifesto Extreme programming Summary Exercises Answers to self-test questions ... Exercises Answers to self-test questions Programming languages 173 The basics 175 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 175 176 176 178 179 180 Introduction Classifying programming languages and features Design...
... modeling, prediction, for example, weather forecasting Software can either be off-the-shelf (e.g Microsoft Word) or tailor-made for a particular application (e.g software for the Apollo moon shots) ... people buy a PC for their home, and so come to realize very clearly what the costs are First is the “rock and roll” factor If you buy a stereo for $200, you don’t expect to pay $2,000 for a CD Similarly, ... if you buy a PC for $1,000, you don’t expect to pay $10,000 for the software, which is what it would cost if you hired a programmer to write it for you So, of course, software for a PC either...
... the prospects for systems software, like operating systems and filing systems, with their closer dependence on specific hardware? 1.7 G Maintenance Maintenance is the term for any effort that is ... and therefore costly process The task often needed knowledge of an outdated programming language and certainly required an accurate understanding of the program’s logic The penalties for not updating ... 80% Programming logic, syntax 20% Figure 1.5 Relative cost of fixing different types of fault 1.4 G Meeting deadlines Meeting deadlines has always been a headache in software production For example,...
... products are detailed designs of each module Programming (coding) The detailed designs are converted into instructions written in the programming language There may be a choice of programming languages, ... Each of these approaches will be discussed later in this book, except for the last in the list An ad hoc approach is no plan at all, and no organization would admit to using such an approach A software ... basis for the plan for a project Here the aim is to predict what will be done I it can be used to analyze what actually happens during a project Here the aim is to improve the process for the...
... requirements for a system is not new or peculiar to software For generations, engineers have been carrying out these activities For example, the following is part of the requirements specification for ... there are other approaches Many people develop software purely for fun Open source programmers are a prime example Their motivations include providing useful tools, enjoying the act of programming ... accurately specified in the first place BELL_C04.QXD 1/30/05 4:15 PM Page 37 4.2 The concept of a requirement Establishing the requirements for a software system is the first step in trying to ensure...
... usually in files on disk, for example, information about the books held in a public library information passed to or from another computer system, for example, to a server Performance requirements ... are available for writing specifications: I informal, writing in natural language, used as clearly and carefully as possible In this chapter we will concentrate on this approach I formal, using ... have a preference for non-technical descriptions expressed in natural language Unfortunately, while natural language is excellent for poetry and love letters, it is a poor vehicle for achieving a...
... guidelines for good interfaces I a process for developing good interfaces, based on prototyping I methods for evaluating interfaces Today prototyping (Chapter 23) is considered essential for user ... most suitable approach But an experienced and frequent user may be frustrated by an interface designed for novices and may prefer shortcut commands and/or a command line interface For example, ... guidelines for designing a user interface 5.1 G Introduction The interface that the user sees when they use the computer is the single, paramount aspect of the system The interface is the packaging for...
... as those above, differs from a guideline The principle of task conformance, for example, tells us what to look for, what to aim for, but not how to achieve it – and it can sometimes be difficult ... principle of consistency mentioned above Here, for illustration, are some examples of guidelines for designing GUI interfaces: I ask the user for confirmation of any non-trivial destructive action ... design of useful and clear information for users should be taken seriously and should be subject to the same quality process as designs or programs Here are some guidelines for error messages Error...
... shared data, which is therefore global But this data is only global within the component 6.6 G Information hiding Information hiding, data hiding or encapsulation is an approach to structuring software ... subverts information hiding.) Clearly the facilities of the programming language can greatly help structuring software according to information hiding In summary, the principle of information ... PM Page 70 Chapter I Modularity 70 There are therefore three requirements for a reuseable component: I it provides a useful service I it performs a single function I it has the minimum of connections...
... Is information hiding in use? Can the structure be improved? 6.5 Is there any correspondence between: (a) any one form of cohesion and information hiding? (b) any form of coupling and information ... G Object-oriented programming In this form of programming, methods and data that are strongly related are grouped together into an object This matches exactly the ideas of information hiding and ... software design – creating a structure for the software Unfortunately no method can claim to lead the designer to an ideal structure, and so guidelines for modularity supplement design methods...
... be done Experimental evidence Structured programming is well established and widely regarded as the best approach to programming You might think, therefore, that there would be clear evidence ... done On the face of it, therefore, there is no need for programs with gotos in them Note, as an interesting side issue, that the theorem does not tell us how to transform the unstructured program; ... we see that the gotos are used for a variety of purposes, for example: I to avoid a piece of code (which is to be executed in different circumstances) I to perform repetition I to exit from the...
... that grows downwards uniformly This is the breadth-first approach to design; it matches the strict, abstract machine view of software design described above An alternative approach is to pursue ... program The central idea of structured programming is abstraction Indeed, we can define structured programming as: “the systematic use of (control) abstraction in programming (Abstraction can be applied ... the arguments for and against goto statements and criticize their validity 7.2 State in your own words what structured programming is Imagine that you meet a friend who is used to programming using...
... is an excellent approach if we want a method that guides our thinking but allows us plenty of scope for creativity In a sense, therefore, the method is not as advanced as some For example, data ... decomposition is a general-purpose method for software design, based around structured programming, but in allowing the development of alternative designsfor the same problem it poses several unanswered ... out some input, performs some action on the input data and then outputs some information The most important of these three is the action or transformation on the data Therefore, in general, the...
... the code for each new level This transformation is straightforward and mechanical We have now arrived at a program design capable of being readily translated into most conventional programming ... The first step in the method is to analyze and describe the structure of the information that the program is to create The product of this step is called a data structure diagram The diagram for ... appropriate position in the program structure diagram For example, operation needs to be done once, for the middle of the pattern It is therefore associated with the box containing process middle...