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As dynamically-typed languages grow in popularity, especially among beginning programmers, novices have an increased need for scalable, helpful feedback for fixing their bugs.Localization and repair can be ambiguous: not all repairs which prevent the program from crashing are eq…

There has been much work to improve IT systems for managing and maintaining health records. The U.S government is trying to integrate different types of health care data for providers and patients. Health care fraud detection research has focused on claims by providers, physicia…

A software component model is the cornerstone of any Component-based Software Development (CBSD) methodology. Such a model defines the modelling elements for constructing software systems. In software system modelling, it is necessary to capture the three elements of a system's …

Pronunciation variation is a well-known phenomenon which leads to performance reduction in speech recognition systems. This performance reduction factor occurs mainly in two forms: within-word pronunciation variation, and cross-word pronunciation variation. The within-word varia…