Interviews with stakeholders can be a useful method for identifying user needs and establishing requirements. However, interviews are also problematic. They are time consuming and...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However, these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and u...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
Time to market or project duration has increasing significance for commercial software development. We report on a longitudinal study of a project at IBM Hursley Park. The focus o...