— Reputation systems can be used in online markets and communities in order to stimulate quality and good behaviour as well as to sanction poor quality and bad behaviour. The bas...
The distributed, project-oriented nature of digital libraries (DLs) has made them difficult to evaluate in aggregate. By modifying the methods and tools used to evaluate tradition...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
A sensitivity analysis of a single-server, infinite-buffer queue with correlated arrivals and correlated service times is performed. We study and compare the isolated impact of (...
Many real-time application domains can benefit from flexible and open distributed architectures, such as those defined by the CORBA specification. CORBA is an architecture for...
Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, Sumedh Mungee