Standard client-server workflow management systems have an intrinsic scalability limitation, the central server, which represents a bottleneck for large-scale applications. This s...
Roberto Silveira Silva Filho, Jacques Wainer, Edmu...
Threads have been present in programming languages for some time now. However, they have a bad image among software developers because they lead to unreliable applications. Most o...
Psychological acceptability has been mentioned as a requirement for secure systems for as long as least privilege and fail safe defaults, but until now has been all but ignored in...
Numerous mathematical approaches have been proposed to determine the optimal checkpoint interval for minimizing total execution time of an application in the presence of failures....
The development of large software systems demands intensive cooperation among multiple project team members with different responsibilities. The development process is often distr...