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Usability Evaluation: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

This article is an extended version of a keynote address presented at the 9th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction held in New Orleans, August 5 through 10, 2001. The article presents an overview of issues pertaining to the development of a user-friendly information society, and introduces 3 concepts for improving the...

Refactoring HTML: Improving the Design of Existing Web Applications (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

Addison Wesley, 2008

Like any other software system, Web sites gradually accumulate “cruft” over time. They slow down. Links break. Security and compatibility problems mysteriously appear. New features don’t integrate seamlessly. Things just don’t work as well. In an ideal world, you’d rebuild from scratch. But you can’t:...

Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects

IGI Global, 2007

Having realistic estimates of effort at an early stage in a Web project's life is vital to the successful management of resources. The principles of the prediction process are identifying the influencing factors, gathering past project data, generating an effort prediction model, and assessing the effectiveness of such prediction model. Cost...

Relational Databases and Knowledge Bases

Addison Wesley, 1989

A database management system (DBMS), or simply database system, is characterized by the data model it suports . The first DBMSs, designed in the 1960s, were based on hierarchical or network models and have been viewed as extensions of file systems in which interfile links are provided through pointers . The data manipulation languages of these...

Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

MIT Press, 2003

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes in his foreword, for a digital library to be...

Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2008

A pronounced move from print subscriptions to electronic resources in all types of libraries has fundamentally impacted the library and its users. With the influx of resources such as e-journals; e-books; index, abstract, and/or full-text databases; aggregated databases; and others, the shift to electronic resources is rapidly changing library...

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Panther All In One

Sams Publishing, 2003

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Panther All in One is designed to teach, in one big book, the new Mac user how to easily work with his hardware, his operating system, and all the applications he is likely to want to use to work with digital media. The book does not assume the reader wants to learn how to use just one product, but covers multiple...

Advanced 3-D Game Programming with DirectX 8.0 (With CD-ROM)

Wordware Publishing, 2001

Microsoft’s DirectX is a powerful set of application programming interfaces used for multimedia application development. The latest version offers increased performance, better usability, and more power to create the next generation of interactive entertainment products that rival anything seen in the past. This revision of the best-selling...

Advances in Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2008 International Workshops, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1-4, 2008

Springer, 2008

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of three workshops held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand, September, 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions for presentation in the following...

Software Process and Product Measurement: International Conference, IWSMMENSURA 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 5-8, 2007, Revised Papers

Springer, 2008

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2007, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in November 2007.

The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers deal with aspects of software measurement...

Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Software, Environments, Tools), Second Edition

SIAM, 2005

“There is no other information retrieval/search book where the heart is the mathematical foundations. This book is greatly needed to further establish information retrieval as a serious academic, as well as practical and industrial, area." ---Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University. “Berry and Browne describe most of what...

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger : Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

This serious, but fun, down-and-dirty book will let you make Tiger purr, ensuring that your Macs appearance, speed, usability, and security settings are what you want. Author Scott Knaster:

Shows you how to speed it up, lock it down, or pull back the curtains.

Dives into default system settings,...

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