Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Empirical studies are crucial to gain evidence on the effects of software engineering methods and tools in defined contexts. However, empirical studies can be costly and thus need...
: After over a decade of use, design patterns continue to find new areas of application. In previous work, we presented a contract formalism for specifying patterns precisely, and...
Neelam Soundarajan, Jason O. Hallstrom, Adem Delib...
Abstract. Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or remov...
Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...