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GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
That's what friends are for: facilitating 'who knows what' across group boundaries
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
It's about time: confronting latency in the development of groupware systems
The presence of network latency leads to usability problems in distributed groupware applications. Example problems include difficulty synchronizing tightly-coupled collaboration...
Cheryl Savery, T. C. Nicholas Graham
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An Economical Approach to Usability Testing
Many software engineers consider usability testing as one of the more expensive, tedious and least rewarding tests to implement. Making usability testing less expensive and more r...
Carl J. Mueller, Dan E. Tamir, Oleg V. Komogortsev...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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14 years 12 months ago
A New Approach to Modular Database Systems
In this paper we present our approach towards a modularized database management system (DBMS) whose components can be adapted at runtime and show the modularization of a DBMS bene...
Florian Irmert, Michael Daum, Klaus Meyer-Wegener
IWPC
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Digging the Development Dust for Refactorings
Software repositories are rich sources of information about the software development process. Mining the information stored in them has been shown to provide interesting insights ...
Curtis Schofield, Brendan Tansey, Zhenchang Xing, ...