As the sharing and exchange of resources increase rapidly, the reliable way of accessing and maintaining these data have become extremely important. Because of the diversity of the types of information stored, and the fact that location of the users can vary greatly, the need for distributed database systems that can support these requirements have been in the highlights. Users from various par...

The dissemination of Web applications is enormous and still growing. This raises a number of challenges for usability evaluators. Video-based analysis can be rather expensive and may provide limited results. This paper presents a discussion of what information can be provided by automatic tools for remote Web usability evaluation as well as an analysis of existing approaches, including our prop...

This document and the information contained herein may not be copied, used or disclosed in whole or in part outside of the consortium except with prior written permission of the partners listed above. Document Title Evaluation of thermal-aware design prototype tools Type Deliverable CO Ref D7.3.1 Target version V1_1 Current issue V0_1 Status Released File Author(s)

DEVS is a popular formalism for modelling complex dynamic systems using a discrete-event abstraction. Due to its popularity, and simplicity of the simulation kernel, a number of tools have been constructed by academia and industry. But each of these tools has distinct design goals and a specific programming language implementation. Consequently, each supports a specific set of formalisms, combi...

A large effort has been devoted to the development of textual knowledge acquisition (KA) tools, but it is still difficult to assess the progress that has been made. The lack of well-accepted evaluation protocols and data hinder the comparison of existing tools and the analysis of their advantages and drawbacks. From our own experiments in evaluating terminology and ontology acquisition tools, i...