Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
This paper outlines an ontology for characterising architecture frameworks. The ontology is based on the metamodel of MAF, and is currently being tried out on a set of well-known e...
Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into reusable process modules. These process modu...
The current landscape for digital rights management (DRM) consists of various ad hoc technologies and platforms that largely focus on copy protection. The fragmented nature of the...
Abstract. Software systems obey the 80/20 rule: aggressively optimizing a vital few execution paths yields large speedups. However, finding the vital few paths can be difficult, e...