Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
1 The paper proposes a new test model, Call-For-Testing (CFT), and applies it to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of Web Applications. Different from traditional approaches, UAT in th...
Lian Yu, Wei Zhao, Xiaofeng Di, Changzhu Kong, Wen...
We present GlobeDB, a system for hosting Web applications that performs autonomic replication of application data. GlobeDB offers data-intensive Web applications the benefits of l...
As technological advances are made in software and hardware, the feasibility of accessing information "any time, anywhere" is becoming a reality. Furthermore, the diversi...
In this paper we propose to include two up-to-date separate concepts, namely social computing and usability metrics, in intelligent interaction agents to enhance a user-centred, ad...