Several operations of Web-based applications are optimized with respect to the set of resources that will receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely the hot set. U...
Agile development practices respect tacit knowledge, make communication more effective, and thus foster the knowledge creation process. However the current agile methods, like XP,...
Prior research has shown that the efficient use of graphical user interfaces strongly depends on human capabilities for spatial cognition. Although it is tempting to believe that ...
Early energy estimation is increasingly important in MultiProcessor System-On-Chip (MPSoC) design. Applying traditional approaches, which consist in delaying the estimation until t...
As applications tend to grow more complex and use more memory, the demand for cache space increases. Thus embedded processors are inclined to use larger caches. Predicting a miss i...