The hybrid redundancy structure found at the cellular level of higher animals provides complex organism with the three key features of a reliability-engineered system: fault toler...
While dedicated technologies such as e.g., Sun’s J2ME MIDP offer a simple programming model for mobile applications, appropriate support for modularizing the implementation of t...
Research in information sciences in recent years has dealt with how to support collaborative work across time, space and organizational boundaries. However, this research neglecte...
This paper explores the role of Information Technology (IT) in the management of municipally-owned and operated public utilities. Through semi-structured interviews of senior mana...
This paper presents a scalable and self-optimizing architecture for Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning in the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) framework. The proposed archite...