Software Optimization Using User Models
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http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860655498
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Creator (cre): Ammar, Reda A.M.
Major Advisor (mja): Booth, Taylor L.
Associate Advisor (asa): Sholl, Howard A.
Associate Advisor (asa): Haryanski, Fred J.
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Software Optimization Using User Models
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reformatted digital
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As interactive Computing has developed, a more comprehensive design methodology is required to produce high quality software. To achieve this goal, user performance consideration must be included as an integrated part of the development process. Current design methods tend to ignore this important aspect of the design process or consider it after full implementation of the system has been nearly completed. This dissertation considers this problem and presents an approach which allows a software engineer to integrate user performance as a design dimension in interactive software system design. Performance analysis techniques are used to build models of user behavior at different analysis levels. These models are then used, in conjunction with deterministic models of the structure of the software, to derive its average time cost. Performance constraints allow the designer to divide the design alternatives into feasible and infeasible classes. The average time cost is then used to choose the optimal alternative among the feasible ones. A case study of the developed approach applied to a text editor is also presented.
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Degree granting institution (dgg): University of Connecticut
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xii, 254 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.
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These materials are provided for educational and research purposes only.
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39153020969426
11216029
ASC Thesis 6319
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