In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
We discuss current approaches to the development of natural language dialogue systems, and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine intera...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
As a result of improvements in process technology, more and more components are being integrated into a single System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Communication between these components ...
Sudeep Pasricha, Nikil D. Dutt, Mohamed Ben-Romdha...
Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...