Current middleware systems suffer from drawbacks. Often one is forced to make decisions early in the design process about which classes may participate in inter-machine communicat...
Performance tuning in modern database systems requires a lot of expertise, is very time consuming and often misdirected. Tuning attempts often lack a methodology that has a holist...
In this paper we show that the initial philosophy used in designing and developing UNIX in early times has been forgotten due to “fast practices”. We question the leitmotif th...
: User’s perception of product, by essence subjective, is a major topic in marketing and industrial design. Many methods, based on users’ tests, are used so as to characterise ...
Very early in the object recognition process the human visual system extracts shading information. While shading can enhance the visibility of structures, it can have a negative i...