Background: In systems biology, and many other areas of research, there is a need for the interoperability of tools and data sources that were not originally designed to be integr...
John Boyle, Christopher C. Cavnor, Sarah A. Killco...
Abstract. Several computing environments including wide area networks and nondedicated networks of workstations are characterized by frequent unavailability of the participating ma...
The complexity of software systems makes design reuse a necessary task in the software development process. CASE tools can provide cognitive assistance in this task, helping the so...
Service-based approaches are widely used to integrate heterogenous systems. Web services allow for the definition of highly dynamic systems where components (services) can be dis...
Multicast sessions may have a large number of receivers with heterogeneous reception capacities. To accommodate this heterogeneity, various multi-rate schemes, based upon the use ...