In any manufacturing environment, the fault injection rate might be considered one of the most meaningful criterion to evaluate the goodness of the development process. In our fie...
In data mining, similarity or distance between attributes is one of the central notions. Such a notion can be used to build attribute hierarchies etc. Similarity metrics can be us...
The COCOMO II model was created to meet the need for a cost model that accounted for future software development practices. This resulted in the formulation of three submodels for...
Bradford Clark, Sunita Devnani-Chulani, Barry W. B...
In this paper we describe a paradigm for contentfocused matchmaking, based on a recently proposed model for constraint acquisition-and-satisfaction. Matchmaking agents are conceiv...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...