C applications, in particular those using operating system level services, frequently comprise multiple crosscutting concerns: network protocols and security are typical examples ...
The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...