In this article, different techniques for 'pointer swizzling" are classified and evaluated for optimizing the access to main-memory resident persistent objects. To speed ...
Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...
Web services are open, interoperable, easy to integrate and reuse, and are extensively used in many application domains. Research and best practices have produced excellent support...
Leen Lambers, Leonardo Mariani, Hartmut Ehrig, Mau...
Abstract. As grids typically consist of autonomously managed subsystems with strongly varying resources, fault-tolerance forms an important aspect of the scheduling process of appl...
Maria Chtepen, Filip H. A. Claeys, Bart Dhoedt, Fi...
In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...