The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Management applications are sensitive to changes in application and system configuration. This coupling makes it difficult and expensive to develop management applications and kee...
Asham El Rayess, Vidar Vetland, Jerome A. Rolia, J...
—In online social networks (OSNs), user connections can be represented as a network. The network formed has distinct properties that distinguish it from other network topologies....
Ankush Garg, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Charles U. Mar...
Abstract. Advertising on the World Wide Web is based around automatically matching web pages with appropriate advertisements, in the form of banner ads, interactive adverts, or tex...
Edward Thomas, Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Yuan Re...
The software underpinning today’s IT systems needs to adapt dynamically and predictably to rapid changes in system workload, environment and objectives. We describe a software f...