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1998

Ozsu, M. Tamer, Szafron, Duane, Leontiev, Yuri

Technical report TR98-02. In this paper we present a model that supports a clean separation between the concepts of interface, implementation, and representation. We present several problems that are difficult to solve in the absence of such separation and describe how the proposed model can be...

2003

Greiner, Russell, Wishart, David, Eisner, Roman, Lu, Z., Lu, Paul, Macdonell, Cam, Poulin, B., Szafron, Duane, Anvik, J.

Technical report TR03-14. Identifying the destination or localization of proteins is key to understanding their function and facilitating their purification. A number of existing computational prediction methods are based on sequence analysis. However, these methods are limited in scope, accuracy...

1993

Schaeffer, Jonathan, Lobe, Greg, Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR93-04. The Enterprise programming environment supports the development of applications that run concurrently on a network of workstations. This paper describes the object-oriented components of Enterprise, implemented in Smalltalk-80, and their seamless integration with ...

2003

Lu, Z., Eisner, Roman, Lu, Paul, Macdonell, Cam, Szafron, Duane, Greiner, Russell, Poulin, B., Wishart, David, Anvik, J., Habibi-Nazhad, B.

Technical report TR03-05. Modern sequencing technology now permits the sequencing of entire genomes, leading to thousands of new gene sequences in need of detailed annotation. It is too time consuming to predict the properties of each protein sequence manually and to organize the results of many...

1995

Szafron, Duane, Ozsu, M. Tamer, Li, John

Technical report TR95-25. Declarative query languages are an important feature of database management systems and have played an important role in their success. As database management technology enters the multimedia information system area, the availability of special-purpose query languages...

2007

Schaeffer, Jonathan, Siegel, Jeff, Duff, Harvey, Schumacher, Allan, Roy, Thomas, Gillis, Stephanie, Onuczko, Curtis, McNaughton, Matthew, Carbonaro, Mike, Waugh, Kevin, Szafron, Duane, Cutumisu, Maria

The traditional approach to implementing interactions between a player character (PC) and objects in computer games is to write scripts in a procedural scripting language. These scripts are usually so complex that they must be written by a computer programmer rather than by the author of the game...

2004

Cutumisu, M., McNaughton, M., Parker, D., Schaeffer, Jonathan, Redford, J., Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR04-05. Recently, some researchers have argued that generative design patterns (GDPs) can leverage the obvious design re-use that characterizes traditional design patterns into code re-use. This paper provides additional evidence that GDPs are both useful and productive. ...

1993

Lake, Robert, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Lu, Paul

Technical report TR93-13. Chess endgame databases, while of important theoretical interest, have yet to make a significant impact in tournament chess. In the game of checkers, however, endgame databases have played a pivotal role in the success of our World Championship challenger program...

1996

Szafron, Duane, Li, John, Ozsu, M. Tamer

Technical report TR96-05. In this paper we consider various spatial relationships that are of general interest for retrieving data from multimedia databases. We present a unified representation of spatial objects for both topological and directional relations. Such a representation is based on...

1994

Schaeffer, Jonathan, Pijls, Wim, Plaat, Aske, de Bruin, Arie

Technical report TR94-17. In 1979 Stockman introduced the SSS* minimax search algorithm that dominates Alpha-Beta in the number of leaf nodes expanded. Further investigation of the algorithm showed that it had three serious drawbacks, which prevented its use by practitioners: it is difficult to...