Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Political Modeling & Election Simulations
[author : Mary Lynn Reed]
Agent-based modeling and simulation are natural tools for social science research and modeling real-world processes such as political elections.
Autonomic Delivery of Expertise via Web Services
[author : Michael J. Fichtelman]
The Agent Building and Learning Environment is a complete environment for designing, testing, and implementing Java-based artificial-intelligence agents.
HTML Templates for Lisp
[author : Gene Michael Stover]
One of the reasons Gene wrote this HTML template library is because he likes the elegance of Lisp programming.
C#, CLI (.NET), and C++/CLI Standardization
[author : Rex Jaeschke]
Rex reports on the status of the C#, CLI, and C++/CLI Ecma standardization efforts.
Optimizing Pixomatic for Modern x86 Processors: Part III
[author : Michael Abrash]
In the final installment of this three-part series, Michael wraps up his optimization of an x86 3D software rasterizer.
Examining Doxygen
[author : Al Williams]
Doxygen is a tool for generating formatted documentation from comment blocks in the source code.
Object Serialization in .NET
[author : Richard Grimes]
Object serialization is vital to web services and SOAP, .NET Remoting, and Application Domains and .NET Contexts.
Dynamic Compilation, Reflection, & Customizable Apps
[author : David B. Scofield and Eric Bergman-Terrell]
David and Eric show how to develop apps that offer user-created buttons and menu items that launch custom features.
Launcher: Mastering Your Own Domain
[author : Gigi Sayfan]
Launcher is a .NET GUI app that loads and executes other programs in multiple app domains.
Penumbra: Simplifying Eclipse
[author : Frank Mueller and Antony L. Hosking]
Penumbra is a plug-in that takes some of the complexity out of the Eclipse IDE.
The Eclipse Visual Editor for Java
[author : Michael Pilone]
The Eclipse Visual Editor for Java is a plug-in for, well, visual editing.
Refactoring with Eclipse
[author : Hugo Troche]
Eclipse provides a collection of refactoring features.
Eclipse 3.0's Rich Client Platform
[author : Gene Sally and Maciej Halasz]
Eclipse 3.0's Rich Client Platform takes the drudgery out of writing SWT-based applications.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Robots & Small-C
[author : Pete Gray]
Pete uses Small-C to write the control code for a DSP-based robot.
COLUMNS
Programming Paradigms
[author : Michael Swaine]
Embedded Space
[author : Ed Nisley]
Chaos Manor
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Programmer's Bookshelf
[author : Gregory V. Wilson]
FORUM
Letters
[author : you]
Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
News & Views
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Of Interest
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]