Independent General Principles for Constructing Responsive Software Systems

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 1-31

  Smith, Connie U ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

design methodology; efficiency; performance principles; responsiveness; Software design optimization; software models; software performance; software performance engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - PERFORMANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022661054     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/6306.6307     Document Type: Article

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