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USENIX
2008
14 years 27 days ago
Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter?
Evaluating novel networked protocols and services requires subjecting the target system to realistic Internet conditions. However, there is no common understanding of what is requ...
Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat
ASWC
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
What Makes a Good Ontology? A Case-Study in Fine-Grained Knowledge Reuse
Understanding which ontology characteristics can predict a “good” quality ontology, is a core and ongoing task in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we provide our findings on wh...
Miriam Fernández, Chwhynny Overbeeke, Marta...
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Getting What You Pay For: Is Exploration in Distributed Hill Climbing Really Worth it?
Abstract--The Distributed Stochastic Algorithm (DSA), Distributed Breakout Algorithm (DBA), and variations such as Distributed Simulated Annealing (DSAN), MGM-1, and DisPeL, are di...
Melanie Smith, Roger Mailler
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Situated Software Development: Work Practice and Infrastructure Are Mutually Constitutive
Software developers’ work is much more interesting and multifarious in practice than formal definitions of software development processes imply. Rational models of work are ofte...
Julia Prior, Toni Robertson, John Leaney
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Activity-Based Quality Model for Maintainability
Maintainability is a key quality attribute of successful software systems. However, its management in practice is still problematic. Currently, there is no comprehensive basis for...
Florian Deissenboeck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka,...