Abstract— This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the latency performance of several implementations of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) operating over HTTP, and co...
Object caching is often used to improve the performance of mobile applications, but the gain is often lessened by the additional load of maintaining consistency between an origina...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...
We introduce Hybrid Sequence Charts (HySCs) as a visual description technique for communication in hybrid system models. To that end, we adapt a subset of the well-known MSC synta...
We present our experience of building a prototype system based on the Utility Model for adaptive multimedia. The Utility Model is proposed to capture the issues and dynamics in mul...
Lei Chen, Shahadat Khan, Kin F. Li, Eric G. Mannin...