Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...
The political intentions for the past 20 years have broadly speaking been to reduce the number of publicly owned and publicly run activities. Outsourcing is an often applied way t...
Design patterns document good design solutions to a recurring problem in a particular context. They are typically modeled using UML. In practice, however, pattern-related informat...
Despite the importance of analytical tools to organizations, there are challenges that should be tackled in order to leverage the impact of those tools in the decision making proc...
Denilson Sell, Liliana Cabral, Enrico Motta, John ...
: In this paper we present two computational approaches that can be used characterize and measure online threaded discussions and demonstrate that they can objectively validate stu...