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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Layered message semantics using social commitments
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An Analysis of the Fault Correction Process in a Large-Scale SDL Production Model
Improvements in the software development process depend on our ability to collect and analyze data drawn from various phases of the development life cycle. Our design metrics rese...
Dolores M. Zage, Wayne M. Zage
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Work-centered design: a case study of a mixed-initiative scheduler
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Performability Analysis of Guarded-Operation Duration: A Successive Model-Translation Approach
When making an engineering design decision, it is often necessary to consider its implications on both system performance and dependability. In this paper, we present a performabi...
Ann T. Tai, William H. Sanders, Leon Alkalai, Savi...
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using Transformation Systems for Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Software maintenance costs dominate software engineering costs, partly because most such engineering is done manually. Program Transformation tools leverage an engineer-provided b...
Ira D. Baxter