Lifelong learning refers to the activities people perform throughout their life to improve their competence in a particular field. Although adaptive educational hypermedia systems...
This paper presents the distributed architecture of the WIDE workflow management system. We show how distribution and scalability are obtained by the use of a distributed object m...
Stefano Ceri, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Gabriel Sanche...
This paper describes our experience in developing a software system for use in the environmental modeling community. The primary user of this software is intended to be a scientis...
This paper describes improvements to the Mach microkernel’s support for efficient application startup across multiple nodes in a cluster or massively parallel processor. Signifi...
Dejan S. Milojicic, David L. Black, Steven J. Sear...
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...