In a principal-agent problem, a principal seeks to motivate an agent to take a certain action beneficial to the principal, while spending as little as possible on the reward. This...
Web services send and receive messages in XML syntax with some parts hashed, encrypted or signed, according to the WS-Security standard. In this paper we introduce a model to forma...
The management of IT landscapes consisting of thousands of business applications, different middleware systems, and supporting various business processes is a challenge for modern...
: In previous papers we had presented an application program interface (API) that enabled applications to use application-defined scheduling algorithms for Ada tasks in a way compa...
Mario Aldea Rivas, Javier Miranda, Michael Gonz&aa...
Transparent system support for software fault tolerance reduces performance in general and precludes application-specific optimizations in particular. In contrast, explicit support...