Enterprises may use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a streamlined interface to their business processes. To scale up the system, each tier in a composite service ...
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Methodologies, techniques and tools that currently support the embedded systems (ESs) development process prove inadequate for today’s complex ESs. Adopted traditional architect...
Kleanthis C. Thamboulidis, George S. Doukas, Giann...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...