Object caching is a desirable feature to improve the both scalability and performance of distributed application systems for information infrastructure, the information management ...
In this paper, we describe a secure group communication protocol for a fault-tolerant synchronous ring. Our protocol, named Secure Synchronous Ring Protocol (SSRP), integrates a se...
A workflow system provides enterprises the automatic and paperless process management. The idea of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is to utilize components from various vendors to cons...
This study explores the benefits of integrating knowledge representations in prior art patent retrieval. Key to the introduced approach is the utilization of human judgment availa...
Erik Graf, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas, Keith va...
Abstract—For a complex distributed system to be dependable, it must be continuously monitored, so that its failures and imperfections can be discovered and corrected in a timely ...
Constantin Serban, Wenxuan Zhang, Naftaly H. Minsk...