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No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
- IEEE Computer
, 1987
"... Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest. The familiar software project, at least as seen by the nont ..."
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by the nontechnical manager, has something of this character; it is usually innocent and straightforward, but is capable of becoming a monster of missed schedules, blown budgets, and flawed products. So we hear desperate cries for a silver bullet--something to make software costs drop as rapidly as computer hardware
A reliable budget-constrained facility location/network design problem with unreliable facilities
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Quality Driven Web Services Composition
, 2003
"... The process-driven composition of Web services is emerging as a promising approach to integrate business applications within and across organizational boundaries. In this approach, individual Web services are federated into composite Web services whose business logic is expressed as a process model. ..."
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services should be carried out during the execution of a composite service, rather than at design-time. In addition, this selection should consider multiple criteria (e.g., price, duration, reliability), and it should take into account global constraints and preferences set by the user (e.g., budget
Budget-optimal task allocation for reliable crowdsourcing systems
- Operations Research
"... Crowdsourcing systems, in which numerous tasks are electronically distributed to numerous “information piece-workers”, have emerged as an effective paradigm for human-powered solving of large scale problems in domains such as image classification, data entry, optical character recognition, recommend ..."
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, recommendation, and proofreading. Because these low-paid workers can be un-reliable, nearly all such systems must devise schemes to increase confidence in their answers, typically by assigning each task multiple times and combining the answers in an appropriate manner, e.g. majority voting. In this paper, we
A Reliable Schedule with Budget Constraints in Grid Computing
"... The application system while executing in a Grid environment may encounter a failure. This phenomenon can be overcome by a reliable scheduler who plays the major role of allocating the applications to the reliable resources based on the reliability requirement of the applications given by the users. ..."
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. The reliability requirement considered in this paper is deadline and budget which is also the quality of service requirement needed for the applications. In this paper, based on deadline and budget as a main factor the tasks are scheduled to the reliable processors.
The Grim Budget Reaper THE GRIM BUDGET REAPER!
"... This paper aims at justifying a budget that enables the execution of a properly developed maintenance management plan. This plan must include only essential operational and maintenance tasks to maintain asset functions at required performance levels. We strongly believe that a budget, based on such ..."
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cuts, as we cannot justify our budget needs. We will analyse the dramatic consequences of a seemingly small budget cut. We recommend spending to make assets more reliable and introduce smart asset management methods first, then save costs as a result. This in contrast to cutting the budget
Shoestring: Probabilistic Soft Error Reliability on the Cheap
"... Aggressive technology scaling provides designers with an ever increasing budget of cheaper and faster transistors. Unfortunately, this trend is accompanied by a decline in individual device reliability as transistors become increasingly susceptible to soft errors. We are quickly approaching a new er ..."
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Aggressive technology scaling provides designers with an ever increasing budget of cheaper and faster transistors. Unfortunately, this trend is accompanied by a decline in individual device reliability as transistors become increasingly susceptible to soft errors. We are quickly approaching a new
Design, Reliability
"... Approximate arithmetic is a promising, new approach to lowenergy designs while tackling reliability issues. We present a method to optimally distribute a given energy budget among adders in a dataflow graph so as to minimize expected errors. The method is based on new formal mathematical models and ..."
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Approximate arithmetic is a promising, new approach to lowenergy designs while tackling reliability issues. We present a method to optimally distribute a given energy budget among adders in a dataflow graph so as to minimize expected errors. The method is based on new formal mathematical models
Reliability measurement: from theory to practice
- IEEE Software
, 1992
"... of tight budgets and schedules, reliability vzeasurement can help you deliver the level of reliability your customers need. ..."
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of tight budgets and schedules, reliability vzeasurement can help you deliver the level of reliability your customers need.
Performance-Based Budget Systems
"... The modern world is a highly complex one. It is moreover in a constant state of change. As testimony to these facts, one need only take a glance at the complexi-ties and changes of today’s demographics, economies, technologies, and envi-ronmental surroundings. Governments are highly aware of these i ..."
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of these intricate and mutable realities and are striving, as best they can, to keep in step. Public budgeting is one area in particular that governments are giving attention to in order to respond to a changeable world. To do this, governments are attempting to provide reliable and complete information to budgeters
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