: Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are nec...
Abstract—In this paper, we present our results on the performance of MAC protocols in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks in terms of the newly proposed metric “aggregate multi-...
Mariam Kaynia, Pedro H. J. Nardell, Paulo Cardieri...
Handheld and embedded devices are becoming increasingly popular and their uses are more versatile. Applications on these devices often need storing, retrieving and synchronizing d...
Jonas S. Karlsson, Amrish Lal, T. Y. Cliff Leung, ...
The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...