BibSonomy publications for /tag/techniquesFri Jul 25 16:12:05 CEST 2008EACE '05: Proceedings of the 2005 annual conference on European association of cognitive ergonomicsSepGrounding experience: relating theory and method to evaluate the user experience of smartphones2005techniques data studies evaluation personas Grounded ubiquitous experience user theory collection case method computing The field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has become increasingly concerned with user experience. A variety of theoretical accounts of what experience is have been articulated in recent years offering a number of important insights, but it can be ...Wed May 28 14:49:50 CEST 2008Berlin, HeidelbergProceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web ConferenceJuneLNCSSemantic Reasoning: A Path To New Possibilities of Personalization2008semantic associations activation web user-interfaces-and-personalization spreading reasoning personalization techniques Recommender systems face up to current information overload by selecting automatically items that match the personal preferences of each user. The so-called content-based recommenders suggest items similar to those the user liked in the past, by resorting to syntactic matching mechanisms. The rigid nature of such mechanisms leads to recommend only items that bear a strong resemblance to those the user already knows. In this paper, we propose a novel content-based strategy that diversifies the offered recommendations by employing reasoning mechanisms borrowed from the Semantic Web. These mechanisms discover extra knowledge about the user's preferences, thus favoring more accurate and flexible personalization processes. Our approach is generic enough to be used in a wide variety of personalization applications and services, in diverse domains and recommender systems. The proposed reasoning-based strategy has been empirically evaluated with a set of real users. The obtained results evidence computational feasibility and significant increases of recommendation accuracy in relation to existing approaches where our reasoning capabilities are disregarded.Wed May 14 10:54:55 CEST 2008Boston, MAProceedings of the International Workshop on Software Product Line Testing ({SPL}i{T} 2004)AugustST: Das zu testende System und die mit dem System in Interaktion stehende Umgebung werden als Zustandsautomat modelliert. Testdaten ergeben sich aus den Transitionen. Es werden Modelchecking Techniken angewendet um Invarianten zu prüfen. 19--26Design Testing for Product Line Development based on Test Scenarios2004test statecharts checking model scenarios techniques In product line development, we develop each product by analyzing features of the product, examining what variants should be bound to variation points in core assets and designing product specific parts that are not supported by the core assets. In order to test the design of each product efficiently, it is desirable to develop test scenarios systematically from selected features and developed design model. In this paper, we propose a design testing method based on test scenarios utilizing model checking techniques. We discuss how we define variation points in test scenarios to make test scenarios reusable, and how we define traceability among feature model, design model and test scenarios to develop test scenarios efficiently for each product.Mon Apr 28 14:02:50 CEST 2008Journal of Policy ModelingSep6-7639--653A comparison of the constant-tax rule and a standard fiscal reaction rule in the IMF's MULTIMOD model252003Computational techniques Tue Apr 22 15:17:45 CEST 2008Journal of Economic Dynamics and ControlApr4489--501A robust method for simulating forward-looking models221998techniques Computational Mon Apr 21 22:09:52 CEST 2008Economics LettersSep3239--245Simulated conditional moment tests491995Simulation techniques Mon Apr 21 22:02:42 CEST 2008Journal of EconometricsNov199--111Priors for unit root models751996techniques Structural elicitation Thu Apr 17 15:45:26 CEST 200847-11Modifying Formative Evaluation Techniques For Distance Education Class Evaluation62005assessment distance education techniques Thu Apr 03 16:12:54 CEST 2008Web Delivering of Music, 2001. Proceedings. First International Conference on 123-130Flycasting: using collaborative filtering to generate a playlist for online radio23-24 Nov. 2001filtering histories instantaneous music conventional flycasting broadcasting medium playlist systems listening broadcast techniques generation real-time radio Internet groupware audience information musical request tastes online retrieval entertainment collaborative In recent years, the popularity of online radio has exploded. This new entertainment medium affords an opportunity not available to conventional broadcast radio: the instantaneous listening audience can be known, or what is more important, the musical tastes of the current listening audience can be known. Thus, it is possible in the new medium to tailor the playlist in real-time to the musical tastes of the listening audience. We discuss a method, termed flycasting, for using collaborative filtering techniques to generate a playlist in real-time based on the request histories of the current listening audience. We also describe a concrete implementation of the technique.Wed Nov 21 19:49:36 CET 2007New York, NY, USAACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.4355--398The design and implementation of hierarchical software systems with reusable components11992Techniques Component We present a domain-independent model of hierarchical software system design and construction that is based on interchangeable software components and large-scale reuse. The model unifies the conceptualizations of two independent projects, Genesis and Avoca, that are successful examples of software component/building-block technologies and domain modeling. Building-block technologies exploit large-scale reuse, rely on open architecture software, and elevate the granularity of programming to the subsystem level. Domain modeling formalizes the similarities and differences among systems of a domain. We believe our model is a blueprint for achieving software component technologies in many domains. Wed Nov 21 19:49:36 CET 2007New York, NY, USAPEPM '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation68--77A disciplined approach to aspect composition2006Component Techniques AOP, Aspect-oriented programming is a promising paradigm that challenges traditional notions of program modularity. Despite its increasing acceptance, aspects have been documented to suffer limited reuse, hard to predict behavior, and difficult modular reasoning. We develop an algebraic model that relates aspects to program transformations and uncovers aspect composition as a significant source of the problems mentioned. We propose an alternative model of composition that eliminates these problems, preserves the power of aspects, and lays an algebraic foundation on which to build and understand AOP tools. Wed Nov 21 19:49:36 CET 2007EDOCDBLP:conf/edoc/2003124-135How MDA Can Help Designing Component- and Aspect-based Applications2003AOP,Component MDA, Techniques Distributed systems are inherently complex, and there- fore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies---such as components, aspects, and appli- cation frameworks---can be effectively used for building dis- tributed applications. However, our experience also shows that most of the applications built in that way are difficult to be re-used, documented, and maintained. Probably, one of the major reasons is the lack of a clear separation between the concepts used at different levels (application domain, application architecture, supporting application platform, programming language, etc.). In this paper we present our experience with a platform we developed for building dis- tributed applications using components and aspects. In par- ticular, we show how many of the (conceptual) problems we hit when trying to document, re-use, and implement it in different contexts can be naturally solved with the adoption of the MDA concepts. In addition, we describe the process we followed for identifying and separating the entities that live in different ``models'' (in the MDA sense), and the re- quired transformations between them. MDA offers a good framework for specifying different views of our model, and mappings to platform-specific profiles. In this way, we are able to address the particular needs of different stakehold- ers: from the designer interested in developing new appli- cations following our (component and aspect-based) mod- eling approach, to the software vendor that wants to imple- ment a proprietary version of our supporting middleware framework in CORBA, EJB or .NET. Wed Nov 21 19:49:36 CET 2007Yorktown Heights, NY 10598Concepts for Describing Composition of Software Artifacts2004Component Techniques This paper treats the "compositor" component as a new, distinct, kind of software component. This is analogous to recognizing that compilers, parsers, and UI-generators are distinct kinds of software components. Each has its own domain of discourse and base of concepts, its own structure for expressing desired results, its own internal solution structure, and its own set of research problems. This paper describes a base of concepts suitable for expressing composition and shows how a general composition engine realizing these concepts can be used to effect the composition needs of several existing AOSD approaches.Sat Feb 11 13:42:47 CET 2006Data Stream Management: Processing High-Speed Data StreamsTemporal Dynamics of On-Line Information Streams2006data techniques topic survey temporal stream analysis detection trend **** techniquesCommunity for tag(s) techniques