Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
In business-to-business e-commerce, traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) approaches such as UN/EDIFACT have been superseded by approaches like web services and ebXML. Nev...
The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...
One of the reasons why large-scale software development is difficult is the number of dependencies that software engineers need to face: e.g., dependencies among the software comp...
Erik Trainer, Stephen Quirk, Cleidson R. B. de Sou...