Today's advanced CASE tools, combining the building-block and generative approaches to software reuse, are effective for reuse of software components and procedures in the pr...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
US military forces now face asymmetric military operations. Management of relationships with civilians is often crucial to success. Local population groups can provide critical in...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...