The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Engineering distributed systems is a challenging activity. This is partly due to the intrinsic complexity of distributed systems, and partly due to the practical obstacles that de...
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzan...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Two object-oriented programming language paradigms— dynamic, prototype-based languages and multi-method languages— provide orthogonal benefits to software engineers. These two...
Managing time-stamped data is essential to clinical research activities and often requires the use of considerable domain knowledge, which is difficult to support within database ...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi D. Shankar, David B. Parr...