Evaluating the importance of user-specific profiling

Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Rubin, Norm ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS;

BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM TRANSLATION; WINDOWS NT;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 3242811589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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