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User-centered design, activity-centered design, and goal-directed design: a review of three methods for designing Web applications: SIGDOC 09
This paper systematically reviews the history and foundation, process steps, terminology, and deliverables of three methodologies for application development: user-centered design... more
Evaluation/Methodology (H.5.2...) | Nov 26 09
Automatic extraction of brushstroke orientation from paintings: POET: prevailing orientation extraction technique: Machine Vision and Applications
Can we use machines to analyze paintings? This paper presents a new technique--the prevailing orientation extraction technique (POET)--that is designed for the... more
Texture (I.2.10...) | Nov 25 09
Understanding, scoping and defining user experience: a survey approach: CHI 09
User experience (UX) is a term that has been gaining a lot of momentum lately. For a company that provides products and services, UX is often thought to be a critical factor that significantly impacts... more
User/Machine Systems (H.1.2) | Nov 25 09
Pricing product lines of digital content: a model using online choice experiment: HICSS 43
It is difficult to know how much to charge for compatible goods and services from the same provider, delivered through different media channels. Kannan, Pope, and Chang address... more
Commercial Services (H.3.5...) | Nov 24 09
Context and driving forces in the development of the early computer game Nimbi: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
In the late 1960s, demonstrations of computer games belonged to the more recreational part of many computing conferences. This case study accurately describes many technical and nontechnical... more
Software (K.2...) | Nov 24 09
Studying the effect of interaction analysis indicators on students’ selfregulation during asynchronous discussion learning activities: CSCL 09
As higher-education institutions offer an increased number of online courses, educators are becoming concerned with the quantity and quality of student participation... more
Collaborative Learning (K.3.1...) | Nov 23 09
The contribution of critical IS research: Communications of the ACM
Stahl and Brooke’s article reminds me of an older gentleman who long ago told me that he had the most boring job in the world. He explained that after retiring from some security government agency, he... more
Models And Principles (H.1) | Nov 23 09
Conceptual data model-based software size estimation for information systems: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
This scholarly paper makes several important contributions to the software engineering problem of how to size a system. Remember that size is the principal factor when determining the... more
Product Metrics (D.2.8...) | Nov 20 09
Security automation considered harmful?: NSPW 07
Edwards, Poole, and Stoll investigate automated end-user security solutions and their effectiveness. They highlight the limitations of automating security for end users by analyzing situations where the social... more
Access Controls (D.4.6...) | Nov 19 09
Heuristics for dynamically adapting propagation in constraint satisfaction problems: AI Communications
Assume a set of variables pulling values from respective domains and a set of constraints they are supposed to satisfy, and you have a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). Solving... more
General (I.2.0) | Nov 18 09
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Scientific data mining: a practical perspective
Data mining is multidisciplinary--its methods apply to very different fields of science. The application of methods is experimental, so it should be iterative; at each step, interaction is needed to change... more
Data Mining (H.2.8...) | Nov 27 09
Beginning Oracle database 11g administration: from novice to professional
Oracle databases are powerful and complex. This book provides a manageable introduction to Oracle 11g administration issues. Instead of focusing on exhaustive technical information, the author relies on his personal experience to offer specific... more
Oracle (H.2.4...) | Nov 25 09
Foundations of green IT: consolidation, virtualization, efficiency, and ROI in the data center
The main goal of this timely publication is to try to provide data and information on green topics that will encourage information technology (IT) companies to do their share in preserving and protecting the environment. The book starts with the... more
General (K.6.0) | Nov 24 09
Games, puzzles, and computation
Let’s pretend that you’re sitting at your computer and clicking little square boxes in a window. Click; the box now shows a “1.” Click; the box shows “3.” Click; the box shows “3.” Click; a little picture of a mine appears and the game is over. The game that I’m... more
Games (I.2.1...) | Nov 23 09
Bricklin on technology
Dan Bricklin gave us VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. A leading thinker and visionary, he has been at the forefront of several technology domains. Most, if not all, of this book is available online, as blog posts or transcripts... more
Miscellaneous (K.m) | Nov 20 09
Artificial life models in hardware
This book presents various contributions to the construction of life-like artifacts that globally show adaptation and evolution, as in the artificial life paradigm. Here, hardware is more extended than in the usual meaning in computer science... more
Self-Modifying Machines (F.1.1...) | Nov 20 09
ROC curves for continuous data
The book is a monograph on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, a graphical statistical technique for evaluating the performance of binary classifiers. ROC curves have been used in a large umber of applications and have... more
Probability And Statistics (G.3) | Nov 19 09
VMware vSphere and virtual infrastructure security: securing the virtual environment
Virtualization is surely taking flight. In just a few years, it has become mainstream technology, and it continues to change with the speed of the Internet. Therefore, virtualization has what it takes to make security professionals... more
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Nov 19 09
Computing with cells: advances in membrane computing
Biology has served as an inspiration for models of computation. These include, to name just a few, neural nets, genetic algorithms, L-systems, and ant algorithms. This monograph describes Frisco’s... more
Models Of Computation (F.1.1) | Nov 18 09
Practical system reliability
Several properties, such as safety, reliability, and availability, are commonly desired of large contemporary systems. Safety, “the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger... more
Reliability (D.2.4...) | Nov 18 09
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