XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decisionsupport applications that exploit heterogeneous data from multiple sources. However, XML-native database systems currentl...
Scaling up to the enormous and growing Internet population with unpredictable usage patterns, Ecommerce applications face severe challenges in cost and manageability, especially f...
Qiong Luo, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid ...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
It is common to imbed business rules within the code of distributed object systems. When business practices and/or policies change, as they often do, it is difficult if not imposs...
Isabelle Rouvellou, Lou Degenaro, Kevin Rasmus, Da...
This paper explores the cognitive limits of estimation in the context of software cost estimation. Two heuristics, representativeness and anchoring, motivate two experiments invol...