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A Field Study of the Software Design Process for Large Systems

by Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, Neil Iscoe - Communications of the ACM , 1988
"... The problems of designing large software systems were studied through interviewing personnel from 17 large projects. A layered behavioral model is used to analyze how three lgf these problems-the thin spread of application domain knowledge, fluctuating and conflicting requirements, and communication ..."
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, and communication bottlenecks and breakdowns-affected software productivity and quality through their impact on cognitive, social, and organizational processes.

STATEMATE: A Working Environment for the Development of Complex Reactive Systems

by David Harel, Hagi Lachover, Amnon Naamad, Amir Pnueli, Michal Politi, Rivi Sherman, Aharon Shtull-trauring, Mark Trakhtenbrot - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , 1990
"... This paper provides an overview of the STATEMATE system, constructed over the past several years by the authors and their colleagues at Ad Cad Ltd., the R&D subsidiary of i-Logix, Inc. STATEMATE is a set of tools, with a heavy graphical orientation, in- tended for the specification, analysis, d ..."
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, design, and documentation of large and complex reactive systems, such as real-time embedded sys- tems, control and communication systems, and interactive software or hardware. It enables a user to prepare, analyze, and debug diagram- matic, yet precise, descriptions of the system under development from

A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

by Gavin Holland, Nitin H. Vaidya, Paramvir Bahl , 2001
"... Wireless local area networks (W-LANs) have become increasingly popular due to the recent availability of affordable devices that are capable of communicating at high data rates. These high rates are possible, in part, through new modulation schemes that are optimized for the channel conditions bring ..."
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Wireless local area networks (W-LANs) have become increasingly popular due to the recent availability of affordable devices that are capable of communicating at high data rates. These high rates are possible, in part, through new modulation schemes that are optimized for the channel conditions

Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks

by Amol Deshpande , Carlos Guestrin, Samuel R. Madden, et al. - IN VLDB , 2004
"... Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" is problematic, however, because sensors do not exhaustively represent the data in the real world. In order to map the raw sensor ..."
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on several real-world sensor-network data sets, taking into account the real measured data and communication quality, demonstrating that our model-based approach provides a high-fidelity representation of the real phenomena and leads to significant performance gains versus traditional data acquisition

Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.

by Nancy L Collins , Stephen J Read - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, , 1990
"... Three studies were conducted to examine the correlates of adult attachment. In Study 1, an 18-item scale to measure adult attachment style dimensions was developed based on Kazan and Shaver's (1987) categorical measure. Factor analyses revealed three dimensions underlying this measure: the e ..."
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the attachment of one's partner and caregiving style of one's parents; and relationship quality, including communication, trust, and satisfaction. Evidence was obtained for partner matching and for similarity between one's partner and one's parents, particularly for one's opposite

Zero-forcing methods for downlink spatial multiplexing in multiuser MIMO channels

by Quentin H. Spencer, A. Lee Swindlehurst, Martin Haardt - IEEE TRANS. SIGNAL PROCESSING , 2004
"... The use of space-division multiple access (SDMA) in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications network can provide a substantial gain in system throughput. The challenge in such multiuser systems is designing transmit vectors while considering the co-c ..."
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The use of space-division multiple access (SDMA) in the downlink of a multiuser multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications network can provide a substantial gain in system throughput. The challenge in such multiuser systems is designing transmit vectors while considering the co

Does distance still matter? The information revolution in small business lending

by Mitchell A. Petersen, Raghuram G. Rajan - JOURNAL OF FINANCE , 2002
"... The distance between small firms and their lenders is increasing, and they are communicating in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate they do not arise from small firms locating differently, consolidation in the banking industry, or biases in the sample. In ..."
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The distance between small firms and their lenders is increasing, and they are communicating in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate they do not arise from small firms locating differently, consolidation in the banking industry, or biases in the sample

Efficient power control via pricing in wireless data networks

by Cem U. Saraydar, Narayan B. M, Senior Member, David J. Goodman - IEEE Trans. on Commun , 2002
"... Abstract—A major challenge in the operation of wireless communications systems is the efficient use of radio resources. One important component of radio resource management is power control, which has been studied extensively in the context of voice communications. With the increasing demand for wir ..."
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Abstract—A major challenge in the operation of wireless communications systems is the efficient use of radio resources. One important component of radio resource management is power control, which has been studied extensively in the context of voice communications. With the increasing demand

Smart Dust: Communicating with a Cubic-Millimeter Computer

by Brett Warneke, Kristofer S. J, Smart Dust - Classical Papers on Computational Logic , 2001
"... building virtual keyboards; . managing inventory control; . monitoring product quality; . constructing smart office spaces; and . providing interfaces for the disabled. SMART DUST REQUIREMENTS Smart Dust requires both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in miniaturization, integration, an ..."
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building virtual keyboards; . managing inventory control; . monitoring product quality; . constructing smart office spaces; and . providing interfaces for the disabled. SMART DUST REQUIREMENTS Smart Dust requires both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in miniaturization, integration

Distributed Quality-of-Service Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks

by Shigang Chen, Klara Nahrstedt - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 1999
"... In an ad-hoc network, all communication is done over wireless media, typically by radio through air, without the help of wired base stations. Since direct communication is allowed only between adjacent nodes, distant nodes communicate over multiple hops. The quality-ofservice (QoS) routing in an ad- ..."
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In an ad-hoc network, all communication is done over wireless media, typically by radio through air, without the help of wired base stations. Since direct communication is allowed only between adjacent nodes, distant nodes communicate over multiple hops. The quality-ofservice (QoS) routing in an ad
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