A popular technique to improve the scalability of a web based system is caching at proxy servers. Caching has the drawback that a cached page becomes stale when the page is update...
Of the many tuning parameters available in a database management system (DBMS), one of the most crucial to performance is the buffer pool size. Choosing an appropriate size, howev...
The way requirements should drive the rest of the software development process has been a subject of many research projects in the past. Unfortunately, all of them focus primarily...
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prad...
This paper reports the results of a recent survey involving over one hundred leading professionals of user-centered design (UCD). The survey covered a broad range of issues rangin...
Ji-Ye Mao, Karel Vredenburg, Paul W. Smith, Tom Ca...
This paper provides an experience report for researchers who are interested in integrating their tools with the new IBM WebSphere Studio Workbench. The Workbench (open source at w...
Derek Rayside, Marin Litoiu, Margaret-Anne D. Stor...