This paper presents a principled framework for efficient processing of ad-hoc top-k (ranking) aggregate queries, which provide the k groups with the highest aggregates as results....
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas
Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Do...
An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. It is shown how the specialization interface ("hot spots...
Healthcare information systems play an important role in improving healthcare quality. As providing healthcare increasingly changes from isolated treatment episodes towards a cont...
Mario Beyer, Klaus Kuhn, Christian Meiler, Stefan ...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...