The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...
The popular slogan ”write once, run anywhere” effectively renders the expressive capabilities of the Java programming framework for developing, deploying, and reusing target-i...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) enables the development and design of loosely coupled software components for integration with other software system. Since most legacy system wer...
IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification a...
Modern computing environments, such as enterprise data centers, Grids, and PlanetLab, introduce distributed services to address scalability, locality, and reliability. Web Service...
Robert Adams, Paul Brett, Subu Iyer, Dejan S. Milo...