: The possibility of a direct link between business workflows and the supporting application system is often seen as the critical strength of the SOA paradigm. Though in practice, ...
Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
In a digital library, there are many di erent interaction models between customers and information providers or merchants. Subscriptions, sessions, pay-per-view, shareware, and pr...
Steven P. Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas ...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...