“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is common wisdom with respect to financial portfolio theory. The configuration of customer portfolios with regard to appropriate risk...
Advances in networking and transmission of digital multimedia data will bring soon huge catalogues of music to users. Accessing these catalogues raises a problem for users and con...
This paper describes our experiences, from a software perspective, with the OSIRIS network adaptor. It first identifies the problems we encountered while programming OSIRIS and op...
In the past, many attempts have been made to improve the interoperability between different Web-based information systems. In most approaches the remaining problems are still twof...
A distributed counter is a concurrent object which provides a fetch-and-increment operation on a shared value. On the basis of a distributed counter, one can implement various fun...