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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Agility and Experimentation: Practical Techniques for Resolving Architectural Tradeoffs
This paper outlines our experiences with making architectural tradeoffs between performance, availability, security, and usability, in light of stringent cost and time-to-market c...
T. C. Nicholas Graham, Rick Kazman, Chris Walmsley
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
What Would Jiminy Cricket Do? Lessons from the First Social Wearable
Work towards the development of a “wearable conscience” that helps individuals make healthy decisions in their everyday lives is described. To be effective, such a system must ...
Timothy W. Bickmore
DAMON
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Critical sections: re-emerging scalability concerns for database storage engines
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...
ESCIENCE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Grid Environment for Data Integration of Scientific Databases
Effective integration of heterogeneous data sources has been studied as the most pressing challenge in various fields; such as, high energy physics, astronomy, and life sciences. ...
Hideo Matsuda
OZCHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
My phone is my keypad: privacy-enhanced PIN-entry on public terminals
More and more services are available on public terminals. Due to their public location and permanent availability, they can easily fall victim to manipulation. These manipulations...
Alexander De Luca, Bernhard Frauendienst, Sebastia...