The performance of current transaction processing systems largely depends on human experts for administration and tuning. These experts have to specify a multitude of internal con...
Most interactive graphical applications that use direct manipulation are built with low-level libraries such as Xlib because the graphic and interaction models of higher-level too...
Abstract: In many geographical applications there is a need to model spatial phenomena not simply by sharp objects but rather through indeterminate or vague concepts. To support su...
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...