Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
Alloy specifications are used to define lightweight models of systems. We present Alchemy, which compiles Alloy specifications into implementations that execute against persistent...
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, Daniel J. Dou...
Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...
We report on the experiences of Siemens Corporation in nine globally-distributed software development projects. These projects represent a range of collaboration models, from co-d...
James D. Herbsleb, Daniel J. Paulish, Matthew Bass
The usability of APIs is increasingly important to programmer productivity. Based on experience with usability studies of specific APIs, techniques were explored for studying the ...