This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
New applications and standards are first conceived only for functional correctness and without concerns for the target architecture. The next challenge is to map them onto an arch...
As communications systems increasingly gather and propagate information about people’s reachability or “presence”, users need better tools to minimize undesired interruption...
We introduce a new intelligent user interface (IUI) and, also, a new methodology to identify the fatigue state for healthy subjects. The fatigue state is determined by means of a ...
Inspection techniques are widely used during systems design as a supplement to empirical evaluations of usability. Psychology-based inspection techniques could give important insi...