This talk presents CreLoki, an extension to the multi-physics framework Loki. It enables unified creatures physics, such as hair and cloth in wet, dry, and underwater contexts with predefined coupling modes. By maintaining a solver setup configuration ...

Programming error messages play an important role in learning to program. The cycle of program input and error message response completes a loop between the programmer and the compiler/interpreter and is a fundamental interaction between human and ...

Most novice programmers are not explicitly aware of the problem-solving process used to approach programming problems and cannot articulate to an instructor where they are in that process. Many are now arguing that this skill, called metacognitive ...

The difficulty in understanding compiler error messages can be a major impediment to novice student learning. To alleviate this issue, multiple researchers have run experiments enhancing compiler error messages in automated assessment tools for ...

One common frustration students face when first learning to program in a compiled language is the difficulty in interpreting the compiler error messages they receive. Attempts to improve error messages have produced differing results. Two recently ...

Attack graphs enable system stakeholders to understand the stepping stones or exploitation procedures that an adversary could potentially execute to impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a network system. These graphs are used to ...

As automated tools for grading programming assignments become more widely used, it is imperative that we better understand how students are utilizing them. Other researchers have provided helpful data on the role automated assessment tools (AATs) have ...

Quantifying security risk is an important and yet difficult task in enterprise network security management. While metrics exist for individual software vulnerabilities, there is currently no standard way of aggregating such metrics. We present a model ...

A significant challenge in evaluating network security stems from the scale of modern enterprise networks and the vast number of vulnerabilities regularly found in software applications. A common technique to deal with this complexity is attack graphs, ...

In high-speed digital subscriber lines (DSL), far-end crosstalk is the main limiting factor on data rates. However, most of the crosstalk is due to the neighbouring twisted pairs in the binder. Therefore, the crosstalk channel matrix is sparse. Using ...

The double time difference of arrival (DTDOA)approach applying in the mobile ad hoc network can effective avoid the synchronization problem. This paper investigates the performance of techniques for DTDOA node localisation in Mobile ad hoc network by ...

Enterprise network security management is a complex task of balancing security and usability, with trade-offs often necessary between the two. Past work has provided ways to identify intricate attack paths due to misconfiguration and vulnerabilities in ...

Enterprise network security management is a vitally important task, more so now than ever before. Networks grow ever larger and more complex, and corporations, universities, government agencies, etc . rely heavily on the availability of these networks. ...

Various tools exist to analyze enterprise network systems and to produce attack graphs detailing how attackers might penetrate into the system. These attack graphs, however, are often complex and difficult to comprehend fully, and a human user may find ...

In various adaptive estimation applications, such as acoustic echo cancellation within teleconferencing systems, the input signal is a highly correlated speech. This, in general, leads to extremely slow convergence of the NLMS adaptive FIR estimator. As ...

A blind nonlinear interference cancellation receiver for code-division multiple-access- (CDMA-) based communication systems operating over Rayleigh flat-fading channels is proposed. The receiver which assumes knowledge of the signature waveforms of all ...

Currently, wireless technology is revolutionizing the way we share information and communicate. The demands for mobility have made wireless technology the primary source for voice communication. Code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is a very popular ...

We consider the LMS estimation of a channel that may be well approximated by an FIR model with only a few nonzero tap coefficients within a given delay horizon or tap length n. When the number of nonzero tap coefficients m is small compared with the ...

The convergence rate of an LMS adaptive FIR filter to an unknown stationary channel may be influenced by the filter parameter dimension as well as by the input signal's characteristics. This dimension influence may be of importance in applications, such ...