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ESEM
2009
ACM
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The evolution and impact of code smells: A case study of two open source systems
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
JCDL
2009
ACM
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No bull, no spin: a comparison of tags with other forms of user metadata
User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
Catherine C. Marshall
DATE
2008
IEEE
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OS-Based Sensor Node Platform and Energy Estimation Model for Health-Care Wireless Sensor Networks
Accurate power and performance figures are critical to assess the effective design of possible sensor node architectures in Body Area Networks (BANs) since they operate on limite...
Francisco J. Rincón, Michele Paselli, Joaqu...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Secure VANET MAC Protocol for DSRC Applications
— Vehicular ad hoc networking is an important component of Intelligent Transportation Systems. The main benefit of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) communication is seen in activ...
Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Nader Moayeri
WCNC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An Uplink Medium Access Protocol with SDMA Support for Multiple-Antenna WLANs
— In this paper, we propose a contention based uplink Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) with Spatial Division Multiple Access (...
Sheng Zhou, Zhisheng Niu