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SIGDOC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Alternative methods for field usability research
Field usability research involves observing people in their own environments—for example, workplaces, homes, and schools—to learn their normal or natural behavior. Through fie...
Laurie Kantner, Deborah Hinderer Sova, Stephanie R...
FASE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Activity-Driven Synthesis of State Machines
The synthesis of object behaviour from scenarios is a well-known and important issue in the transition from system analysis to system design. We describe a model transformation pro...
Rolf Hennicker, Alexander Knapp
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 11 months ago
Dynamic management of resources and workloads for RDBMS in cloud: a control-theoretic approach
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Pengcheng Xiong
SBP
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Dynamical Systems Model for Understanding Behavioral Interventions for Weight Loss
We propose a dynamical systems model that captures the daily fluctuations of human weight change, incorporating both physiological and psychological factors. The model consists of...
J.-Emeterio Navarro-Barrientos, Daniel E. Rivera, ...
CCE
2005
13 years 9 months ago
Model-based computer-aided design for controlled release of pesticides
In the field of controlled release technology for pesticides or active ingredients (AI), models that can predict its delivery during application are important for purposes of desi...
Núria Muro-Suñé, Rafiqul Gani...