This paper outlines an ontology for characterising architecture frameworks. The ontology is based on the metamodel of MAF, and is currently being tried out on a set of well-known e...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
We expose privacy issues related to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in libraries, describe current deployments, and suggest novel architectures for library RFID. Libraries ...
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
End-to-end congestion control algorithms in TCP are designed for a highly co-operative environment with the assumption that the end hosts voluntarily participate in it and obey th...