Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Performance evaluation studies are to be an integral part of the design and tuning of parallel applications. We propose a hierarchical approach to the systematic characterization o...
Maria Calzarossa, Alessandro P. Merlo, Daniele Tes...
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
A typical task in technical fault detection or medical diagnosis problems is to discriminate normal behavior from one or more types of abnormal behavior by means of different meas...
Experience in preparing Web content for people with visual disabilities shows that automatic testing of accessibility is clearly insufficient to meet real-world demands, and that ...