Computing Reviews - New Reviews

Optimising multiple quality criteria of service-oriented software architectures from QUASOSS 09

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Martens, Brosch, and Reussner present an automated approach for optimizing service-oriented architecture (SOA) models with respect to performance and reliability. The approach consists of

The learning context: influence on learning to program from Computers & Education

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Govender studies the influence of different contextual elements on the process of learning. The paper identifies different types of context--what the author calls settings. Using

Feature interactions between Internet services and telecommunication services from IPTComm 09

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This paper describes a new approach for automatic detection and conflict analysis of the functions and features of telecommunication services, as they interact with Internet user access. Wu et al.

Polytypic properties and proofs in Coq from WGP 09

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Polytypic programs are among the most generic programs, and prover-assisted programming languages are among the most rigorous. Verbruggen, de Vries, and Hughes take on the daunting

The wireless synchronization problem from PODC 09

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

The following concepts are developed and included in the paper: the disrupted wireless single-hop radio network model; round numbering and the wireless single-hop radio network synchronization

Transaction aggregation as a strategy for credit card fraud detection from Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Whitrow et al. investigate the important problem of detecting fraudulent credit card transactions. A traditional approach to detecting a fraudulent transaction is based on a

A framework of sensor-cloud integration opportunities and challenges from ICUIMC 09

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

I have mixed feelings about this paper. Indeed, Hassan, Song, and Huh offer a very good overview of the problem faced by practitioners and researchers when trying to integrate wireless sensor

Difference histograms: a new tool for time series analysis applied to bearing fault diagnosis from Pattern Recognition Letters

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This paper uses difference histograms to provide features for input into an algorithm (a classifier) for identifying rolling element bearing failures. The authors’ feature/classifier combination

An architecture-centric software maintainability assessment using information theory from Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This exciting paper introduces the concept of using information theory to measure the complexity of a particular software architecture. This new approach will replace many ad hoc rules

Automatic titling for international sporting events from UPGRADE-CN 09

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

The authors propose a signal processing method that--during the broadcast of international sporting events--transports title information in different languages, in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format

Digital forensics: digital evidence in criminal investigations

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

While there is a growing body of literature that addresses digital forensics, few books focus on digital evidence and criminal investigation. The book consists of

WiMAX evolution: emerging technologies and applications

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This edited volume, coordinated by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, summarizes current thinking on the evolution of worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX)--also known

Multi-agent programming: languages, tools and applications

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This is the second book in a series [1] that aims to provide an overview of the state of the art in multi-agent systems programming; the third book is on its way. The book has three parts

Towards the future Internet: a European research perspective

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This European initiative, in the form of a collection of scientific works in a plethora of challenging research domains, sails into the uncharted waters of future generations of the Internet. The way

Cloud computing: implementation, management, and security

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

The recent hype over so-called cloud computing has generated literally hundreds of books, articles, Web sites, and conferences, as well as a handful of related journals. However, a stable and useful

A missing link in cybernetics: logic and continuity

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Continuity can be understood, for example, as moving beyond inequalities with fixed parameters--that render the well-known “true or false” options--into the possibility that the boundaries of the inequalities may be adjusted. This is one of the central issues

Beginning PHP 6, Apache, MySQL 6 Web development

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

With application development getting a big boost in the iPhone apps area and the increasing popularity of content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla, the need for good guidance for Web development is as high as it has ever been. This is the

Pro Linux system administration

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This very substantial book aims to provide the reader with complete guidance for setting up a Linux-based server. The authors chose to concentrate on two distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu Server 8.04; as a result, they had to

The physics and psychophysics of music: an introduction

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Psychophysics is a branch of psychology--not of physics--that deals with “the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation” [1]. Broadly speaking, this book deals with the

Nanocomputing: computational physics for nanoscience and nanotechnology

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

This book is a journey through the computational physics of nanoscience, which is the field of studying matters/systems at atomic and molecular scales. The nanoscale world has surprised scientists for