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2002
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Effective Communication in Requirements Elicitation: A Comparison of Methodologies
The elicitation or communication of user requirements comprises an early and critical but highly error-prone stage in system development. Socially-oriented methodologies provide m...
Jane Coughlan, Robert D. Macredie
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CORR
2010
Springer
77views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Decreasing log data of multi-tier services for effective request tracing
Previous work shows request tracing systems help understand and debug the performance problems of multi-tier services. However, for large-scale data centers, more than hundreds of...
Bo Sang, Jianfeng Zhan, Guanhua Tian
124
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GROUP
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
The effects of life disruptions on home technology routines
Conflict and disruption are a part of everyday life, yet research in the home largely examines consensus and rituals. In this paper, we use Holmes and Rahe's categorization o...
Jill P. Dimond, Erika Shehan Poole, Sarita Yardi
150
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IPCO
2010
153views Optimization» more  IPCO 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
An Effective Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Convex Quadratic Integer Programming
We present a branch-and-bound algorithm for minimizing a convex quadratic objective function over integer variables subject to convex constraints. In a given node of the enumerati...
Christoph Buchheim, Alberto Caprara, Andrea Lodi
GECCO
2011
Springer
247views Optimization» more  GECCO 2011»
14 years 7 months ago
An agent-based model of the effects of a primate social structure on the speed of natural selection
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
Gideon M. Gluckman, Joanna Bryson