This paper presents a requirements engineering framework based on the notions of Actor, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, and applies it to a case study in the field of Informatio...
The human visual system plays a key role in the final perceived quality of the compressed images. It is therefore desirable to allow system designers and users to take advantage o...
Learning from software failures is an essential step towards the development of more reliable software systems and processes. However, as more intricate software systems are devel...
Abstract. Source code transformations are a very effective method of parallelizing and improving the efficiency of programs. Unfortunately most compiler systems require implementin...
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...