Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
Assessing reliability at early stages of software development, such as at the level of software architecture, is desirable and can provide a cost-effective way of improving a soft...
This report illustrates the use of qualitative methods and an interpretive framework (Cultural Historical Activity Theory) to examine educational interventions. The techniques are...
A framework for requirements analysis is proposed that accounts for individual and personal goals, and the effect of time and context on personal requirements. The implications of...
Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Stephen Fickas, McKay Moore...
This paper examines whether the ability to reuse a simulation, in whole or in part, results in tangible cost savings on the overall economics of the original simulation. Specific ...