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PPAM
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Checkpointing Speculative Distributed Shared Memory
This paper describes a checkpointing mechanism destined for Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems with speculative prefetching. Speculation is a general technique involving predi...
Arkadiusz Danilecki, Anna Kobusinska, Michal Szych...
UM
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Modeling Suppositions in Users' Arguments
During conversation, people often make assumptions or suppositions that are not explicitly stated. Failure to identify these suppositions may lead to mis-communication. In this pap...
Sarah George, Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Adaptive middleware for context-aware applications in smart-homes
We propose an adaptive middleware design for context-aware applications that abstracts the applications from the sensors that provide context. Further, we use application-specifi...
Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann
RE
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
RETNA: From Requirements to Testing in a Natural Way
Most problems in building and refining a system can be traced back to errors in requirements. Poorly organized requirements, most often in natural language are among the major ca...
Ravishankar Boddu, Lan Guo, Supratik Mukhopadhyay,...
EDOC
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Compensation is Not Enough
– An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has cha...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...