Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
While massively multiplayer on-line games (MMOs) are enormously popular, their use of the client-server architecture causes them to suffer from scalability issues and high mainte...
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...
: Cognitive Ergonomics is discussed as a systematic base for user interface design. The history of the discipline, explicitly existing now for about 25 years, is discussed, from pa...
Requirements Engineering (RE) investigates the impact of a future-oriented change vision, but the move towards this vision must consider a context heavily shaped by the past. As R...
Peter Haumer, Matthias Jarke, Klaus Pohl, Patrick ...