The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...
Despite the growing research on usability in the predevelopment phase, we know little about post-deployment usability activities. To characterize these activities, we surveyed 333...
Parmit K. Chilana, Andrew J. Ko, Jacob O. Wobbrock...
Application autonomy can reduce interactions with users, ease the use of the system, and decrease user distraction. On the other hand, users may feel loss of control over their ap...
Security design patterns have been proposed recently as a tool for the improvement of software security during the architecture and design phases. Since the apperance of this rese...
B-trees have been ubiquitous in database management systems for several decades, and they serve in many other storage systems as well. Their basic structure and their basic operat...