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VAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Plea for Help with Variability, in Two Acts
A short theatrical exaggeration (but not too much) which describes practical problems with variability as experienced by real-world software developers. Real issue, there are no p...
Reed Little, Randy Blohm
WPES
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP
Quite often on the Internet, cryptography is used to protect private, personal communications. However, most commonly, systems such as PGP are used, which use long-lived encryptio...
Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, Eric A. Brewer
HPDC
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A new metric for robustness with application to job scheduling
Scheduling strategies for parallel and distributed computing have mostly been oriented toward performance, while striving to achieve some notion of fairness. With the increase in ...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman, Jayashree Sadagopa...
APAQS
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Formal Mechanism for Assessing Polymorphism in Object-Oriented Systems
Although quality is not easy to evaluate since it is a complex concept compound by different aspects, several properties that make a good object-oriented design have been recogniz...
Claudia Pons, Maximo Prieto, Luis Olsina
AI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A spectrum of compromise aggregation operators for multi-attribute decision making
In many decision making problems, a number of independent attributes or criteria are often used to individually rate an alternative from an agent’s local perspective and then th...
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings