System administrators are end-users too. And as end-users, they develop tools, create web pages, write command-line scripts, use spreadsheets, and repurpose existing tools. In sho...
Eser Kandogan, Paul P. Maglio, Eben M. Haber, John...
Annals and chronicles may be the foundation of accounting, but writers of stories and histories have long known that they seldom render a satisfactory account of complex events. I...
Publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems are useful for many applications, including pervasive environments. In the latter context, however, great care must be taken to preserve the pr...
As semiconductor manufacturing requires greater capital investments, the use of contract foundries has grown dramatically, increasing exposure to mask theft and unauthorized exces...
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have become an important cornerstone of the development of enterprise-scale software applications. Although a range of domain-specific langua...