Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...
This paper will present an approach that fosters a seamless integration of documents with corporate information systems. It is based on a conceptually enhanced notion of documents...
Ever since the `early days' of database management systems, clustering has proven to be one of the most effective performance enhancement techniques for object oriented datab...
Customizable processors are being used increasingly often in SoC designs. During the past few years, they have proven to be a good way to solve the conflicting flexibility and p...