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E-Commerce Security: No Silver Bullet

No Silver Bullet – The Evolutionary Model

This paper’s objective is to present an evolutionary model that better explains the behavior of the gap between software engineering (SE) essence difficulties and SE capabilities, and adds an evolutionary dimension to Brooks’s approach regarding the gap. In his 1987 landmark paper, Brooks argues that software projects incorporate inherent essence-conceptual difficulties that are unchanging and ...

No Silver Bullet for Software Visualisation Evaluation

Software visualisation seeks to aid comprehension of software; however, there is still little progress in the evaluation of such visualisations. This paper reports on the current practice of evaluation in software visualisation. Four evaluation strategies are identified and discussed in order to identify strengths and weaknesses when applied to software visualisation. Areas for improvement are ...

Cloud No Longer a Silver Bullet, Edge to the Rescue

The recent surge of cognitive computing presents unprecedented challenges for future computing systems. Siri, a representative cognitive service, has to serve 2 billion requests per week [1]. As compared to traditional cloud service requests such as Web search, Siri’s voice-based requests not only demand much higher bandwidth, but also require at least two-orders of magnitude higher computation...

Psychiatric symptoms of dementia: Treatable, but no silver bullet.

Behavioral problems are common in dementia and may reduce the quality of life of the patient and disrupt the home life of family members. Families want a pill that can cure the myriad phenotypes of a decaying brain; unfortunately, there is no pharmaceutical silver bullet. This paper reviews the evidence for using different classes of drugs for the behavior symptoms commonly encountered in demen...