Abstract. Software systems obey the 80/20 rule: aggressively optimizing a vital few execution paths yields large speedups. However, finding the vital few paths can be difficult, e...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....
The concept of information landscapes has been a constant theme in the development of interactive multimedia packages. For the interface and access to this information to be effec...
John G. Hedberg, Barry Harper, Christine Brown, Ro...
Context-aware user interfaces facilitate the user interaction by suggesting or prefilling data derived from the user’s current context. This raises the problem of mapping conte...
Clusters of Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) nodes with multi-core Chip-Multiprocessors (CMP), also known as SMP-CMP clusters, are becoming ubiquitous today. For Message Passing int...