As scientific research becomes more data intensive, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and high performance storage systems. Such data repositories must provide b...
Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick J. Flynn, Douglas Th...
Abstract. In open scenarios, agents willing to cooperate must impact the communication barrier between them and their unknown partners. If agents are not relying on any agreement a...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Savino Sguera, Armando Stel...
Component-orientedprogramming(COP)isactuallyakeyresearchtrackinsoftwareengineering.Avarietyofcomponent-oriented s (COLs) have been proposed with new or adapted abstractions and me...
This article presents a method for valuing software, based on the income that use of that software is expected to generate in the future. It applies well known principles of intel...
ifferent abstraction levels, resulting in isolated `information silos'. An increasing number of task-specific software tools aim to support developers, but this often results ...