Large-scale software engineering requires communication and collaboration to successfully build and ship products. We conducted a survey with Microsoft engineers on inter-team coo...
This paper describes the transaction support framework OPTIMA and its implementation for Ada 95. First, a transaction model that fits concurrent programming languages is presented...
To create acceptable levels of Quality of Service (QoS), designers need to be able to predict users’ behaviour in response to different levels of QoS. However, predicting behavio...
Abstract The application of data mining algorithms needs a goal-oriented preprocessing of the data. In practical applications the preprocessing task is very time consuming and has ...
MPEG-4 is scheduled to become an International Standard in March 1999. This paper demonstrates an experiment for a virtual cloning method and animation system, which is compatible...