— The need for self-healing software to respond with a reactive, proactive or preventative action as a result of changes in its environment has added the non-functional requireme...
Portable digital music players are becoming pervasive and the size of personal digital music collections has been steadily increasing (5-10 thousand tracks are common today). The ...
Object-oriented legacy systems are hard to maintain because they are hard to understand. One of the main understanding problems is revealed by the so-called ”yo-yo effect” tha...
Blogging has become the newest communication medium for creating a virtual community, a set of blogs linking back and forth to one another’s postings, while discussing common to...
Acknowledging an interruption with a nod of the head is a natural and intuitive communication gesture which can be performed without significantly disturbing a primary interface ...