Agile development principles ensure that continuous attention to technical excellence combined with a good design contributes to increased agility ensuring products with higher quality. Usability is one of the quality ...

Compiler error messages should allow programmers to understand and solve quickly problems found during the compilation process. However, compilers usually issue short contextless messages with little information and with ...

The popularity of social networks have attracted attention of companies. The growing amount of connected users and messages posted per day make these environments fruitful to detect needs, tendencies, opinions, and other ...

The goal of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the new data clustering approaches, carrying out a comparative study of clustering techniques that combine or select multiple solutions, analyzing these latest ...

Unsupervised data clustering is not a trivial process, as no previous knowledge is available and real data is often complex and multi-faceted. To make matters worse, traditionally, clustering aims to describe the data ...

The APIs are becoming increasingly more popular and they play a important role in software development. However, many APIs are large and complex that makes them hard to learn. Among avaliable resources to learn to use an ...

The rapid popularization of smartphones has contributed to the growth of SMS usage as an alternative way of communication. The increasing number of users, along with the trust they inherently have in their devices, makes ...

The super-resolution aims to obtain a higher resolution image, using information from one or more low resolution images. There are different applications where super-resolution may be used, such as medical and forensic ...

The easy access to mobile and social networking is changing the way people communicate; however, the deaf person is segregated in some of these media. Although there are many designers working with some recommendations, ...

The Multipath TCP (MPTCP) protocol allows applications to better explore the network resources available to multi-connected devices such as mobile phones or multi-homed systems. Here, some advantages are envisioned: bandwidth ...