In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...
This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
—This paper considers the design of handoff rerouting algorithms for reducing the overall session cost in personal communication systems (PCS). Most modern communication systems ...
Disk subsystems span the range of configuration complexity from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer syst...
It is common to imbed business rules within the code of distributed object systems. When business practices and/or policies change, as they often do, it is difficult if not imposs...
Isabelle Rouvellou, Lou Degenaro, Kevin Rasmus, Da...