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UML
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluating the Effect of Composite States on the Understandability of UML Statechart Diagrams
UML statechart diagrams have become an important technique for describing the dynamic behavior of a software system. They are also a significant element of OO design, especially in...
José A. Cruz-Lemus, Marcela Genero, M. Espe...
WIDM
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
User evaluation of the NASA technical report server recommendation service
We present the user evaluation of two recommendation server methodologies implemented for the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). One methodology for generating recommendations u...
Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen, JoAnne R. Calhoun...
CIA
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Reasoning About Communication - A Practical Approach Based on Empirical Semantics
Given a specification of communication rules in a multiagent system (in the form of protocols, ACL semantics, etc.), the question of how to design appropriate agents that can oper...
Felix A. Fischer, Michael Rovatsos
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluating window joins over punctuated streams
We explore join optimizations in the presence of both timebased constraints (sliding windows) and value-based constraints (punctuations). We present the first join solution named...
Luping Ding, Elke A. Rundensteiner
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra