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Understanding Application-Level Caching in Web Applications: A Comprehensive Introduction and Survey of State-of-the-Art
Jhonny Mertz, Ingrid Nunes
A new form of caching, namely application-level caching, has been recently employed in web applications to improve their performance and increase scalability. It consists of the in…
Automation of application-level caching in a seamless way
Jhonny Mertz, Ingrid Nunes
Meeting performance and scalability requirements while delivering services is a critical issue in web applications. Recently, latency and cost of Internet-based services are encour…
A Qualitative Study of Application-level Caching
Jhonny Mertz, Ingrid Nunes
Latency and cost of Internet-based services are encouraging the use of application-level caching to continue satisfying users' demands, and improve the scalability and availability…
Satisfying Increasing Performance Requirements with Caching at the Application Level
Jhonny Mertz, Ingrid Nunes, Luca Della Toffola +2
Application-level caching is a form of caching that has been increasingly adopted to satisfy performance and throughput requirements. The key idea is to store the results of a comp…
Learning to Learn in Collective Adaptive Systems: Mining Design Patterns for Data-driven Reasoning
Mirko D'Angelo, Sona Ghahremani, Simos Gerasimou +4
Engineering collective adaptive systems (CAS) with learning capabilities is a challenging task due to their multi-dimensional and complex design space. Data-driven approaches for C…
Quantitatively Assessing the Benefits of Model-driven Development in Agent-based Modeling and Simulation
Fernando Santos, Ingrid Nunes, Ana L. C. Bazzan
The agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) paradigm has been used to analyze, reproduce, and predict phenomena related to many application areas. Although there are many agent-…
Explaining reputation assessments
Ingrid Nunes, Phillip Taylor, Lina Barakat +2
Reputation is crucial to enabling human or software agents to select among alternative providers. Although several effective reputation assessment methods exist, they typically dis…
A systematic review and taxonomy of explanations in decision support and recommender systems
Ingrid Nunes, Dietmar Jannach
With the recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence, an increasing number of decision-making tasks are delegated to software systems. A key requirement for the success…
The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol
Ingrid Nunes, Christoph Treude, Fabio Calefato
Background: Collaboration among software engineers through face-to-face discussions in teams has been promoted since the adoption of agile methods. However, these discussions might…