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NORDICHI
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Procuring a usable system using unemployed personas
This case study examines a procurement project where the Swedish National Labor Market Administration (AMV) hired usability consultants in order to redesign their website for empl...
Erik Markensten, Henrik Artman
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
HASE
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Dependability Analysis for Supporting Design Decisions in UML
Even though a thorough system specification improves the quality of the design , it is not sufficient to guarantee that a system will satisfy its reliability targets. Within this ...
Andrea Bondavalli, Ivan Mura, István Majzik
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Design Time Reliability Analysis of Distributed Fault Tolerance Algorithms
Designing a distributed fault tolerance algorithm requires careful analysis of both fault models and diagnosis strategies. A system will fail if there are too many active faults, ...
Elizabeth Latronico, Philip Koopman
JSS
2011
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12 years 12 months ago
A novel statistical time-series pattern based interval forecasting strategy for activity durations in workflow systems
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the...
Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Ni, Dong Yuan, Yuan-Chun Jiang, Z...