By definition, a heavyweight network service requires a significant amount of computation to complete its task. Providing a heavyweight service is challenging for a number of reaso...
Abstract The importance of providing integration architectures in every field of application is beyond controversy these days. Unfortunately, existing solutions are focusing mainly...
Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
Because multicore CPUs have become the standard with all major hardware manufacturers, it becomes increasingly important for ing languages to provide programming abstractions that ...
Current generation embedded applications demand the computation engine to offer high performance similar to custom hardware circuits while preserving the flexibility of software s...