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COMPSAC
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Allocating Data Objects to Multiple Sites for Fast Browsing of Hypermedia Documents
Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
Siu-Kai So, Ishfaq Ahmad, Kamalakar Karlapalem
HPDC
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Metascheduling: A Scheduling Model for Metacomputing Systems
Abstract Metacomputing is the seamless application of geographically-separated distributed computing resources to user applications. We consider the scheduling of metaapplications;...
Jon B. Weissman
RTSS
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
More optimism about real-time distributed commit processing
In [6], we proposed a new commit protocol, OPT, specially designed for use in distributed firm-deadline real-time database systems. OPT allows transactions to “optimistically...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
SIGDOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Usability Studies of WWW Sites: Heuristic Evaluation vs. Laboratory Testing
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of two usability assessment methods frequently applied to web sites. It uses case histories of WWW usability studies conducted by...
Laurie Kantner, Stephanie Rosenbaum
ANZIIS
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An object oriented intelligent tourist advisor system
This paper describes the design and developmentof an expert system for tourist information center. The expert system was built to recommend a suitable travel schedule that satisfi...
C. H. K. Tsang, M. H. C. Woo, C. Bloor