Web applications can be classified as hybrids between hypermedia and information systems. They have a relatively simple distributed architecture from the user viewpoint, but a comp...
With its decoupling of processes in space and time, the shared data space model has proven to be a well-suited solution for developing distributed component-based systems. However,...
Giovanni Russello, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Maarten ...
Using existing programming tools, writing high-performance image processing code requires sacrificing readability, portability, and modularity. We argue that this is a consequenc...
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Andrew Adams, Sylvain Paris...
Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
This paper tackles a major privacy concern in current location-based services where users have to continuously report their locations to the database server in order to obtain the ...