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...
ABSTRACT. The design process followed to produce traditional applications needs to be enhanced to cope with new contextaware ubiquitous application requirements. With the popularit...
The emerging consensus on the boundaries and main elements of the Software Engineering (SE) discipline represents an opportunity for the engineering of shared conceptualizations t...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...