—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
1 Routers need buffers to store and forward packets, especially when there is network congestion. With current memory technology, neither the SRAM nor the DRAM alone is suitabl...
Running Data Grid applications such as High Energy Nuclear Physics (HENP) and weather modelling experiments involves working with huge data sets possibly of hundreds of Terabytes ...
Code duplication is a serious problem with no easy solution, even in industrial-strength code. Single inheritance cannot provide for effective code reuse in all situations, and s...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Philip J. Quitslund, Andre...
Systems that are formed by massively distributed mobile resources, such as satellite constellations, often provide mission-critical functions. However, many existing quality-of-se...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Cha...