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WSC
1998
15 years 3 months ago
Discrete-Event Simulation for the Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems
This paper explores the use of discrete-event simulation for the design and control of physical protection systems for fixed-site facilities housing items of significant value. It...
Sabina E. Jordan, Mark K. Snell, Marcella M. Madse...
ISPASS
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Metrics for Architecture-Level Lifetime Reliability Analysis
Abstract— This work concerns metrics for evaluating microarchitectural enhancements to improve processor lifetime reliability. A commonly reported reliability metric is mean time...
Pradeep Ramachandran, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose,...
PRIMA
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Supporting Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Planning-Based Approach
Abstract. Software systems are becoming more and more part of human life influencing organizational and social activities. This introduces the need of considering the design of a ...
Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulos
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Requirements engineering: from craft to discipline
Getting the right software requirements under the right environment assumptions is a critical precondition for developing the right software. This task is intrinsically difficult....
Axel van Lamsweerde
CLEF
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Examining the Robustness of Evaluation Metrics for Patent Retrieval with Incomplete Relevance Judgements
Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
Walid Magdy, Gareth J. F. Jones