This paper reports the results of a recent survey involving over one hundred leading professionals of user-centered design (UCD). The survey covered a broad range of issues rangin...
Ji-Ye Mao, Karel Vredenburg, Paul W. Smith, Tom Ca...
A popular technique to improve the scalability of a web based system is caching at proxy servers. Caching has the drawback that a cached page becomes stale when the page is update...
Of the many tuning parameters available in a database management system (DBMS), one of the most crucial to performance is the buffer pool size. Choosing an appropriate size, howev...
The advance in wireless networks and in positioning systems has led to the development of a new generation of mobile applications: location-based services (LBS). LBS offer highly ...
Hubert Ka Yau Leung, Ioana Burcea, Hans-Arno Jacob...
The development of large software systems involves a continual lengthy build process that may include preprocessing, compilation and linking of tens of thousands of source code ï¬...