— Consider a generic data unit of random size L that needs to be transmitted over a channel of unit capacity. The channel dynamics is modeled as an on-off process {(Ai, Ui)}i≥1...
This paper presents results of a long-term client-side Web usage study, updating previous studies that range in age from five to ten years. We focus on three aspects of Web naviga...
Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, ...
E-commerce web sites that sell highly customized products tend to be very complex in terms of the underlying logical model of the customization process. We present a systematic ap...
Andrea Lombardoni, Moira C. Norrie, Nadir Weibel, ...
This paper introduces the notion of a software decelerator, to be used in logic-centric system architectures. Functions are offloaded from logic to a processor, accepting a speed ...
Eric Keller, Gordon J. Brebner, Philip James-Roxby
Service-based systems engineering is a recent paradigm that has proven useful for the development of multifunctional systems, whose functions may be used in different contexts and...