We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
The increasing constraints on power consumption in many computing systems point to the need for power modeling and estimation for all components of a system. The Operating System ...
Component-based software structuring principles are now commonly and successfully applied at the application level; but componentisation is far less established when it comes to b...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Paul Grace, Fran&c...
: As business transitions into the new economy, e-system successful use has become a strategic goal. Especially in business to consumer (e-commerce) applications, users highly eval...
Abstract As service-based Internet systems get increasingly complex they become harder to manage at design time as well as at runtime. Nowadays, many systems are described in terms...