URL, or layer-5, switches can be used to implement locally and globally distributed web sites. URL switches must be able to exploit knowledge of server load and content (e.g., of ...
Software architectures promote development focused on modular building blocks and their interconnections. Since architecture-level components often contain complex functionality, ...
Eric M. Dashofy, Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Tayl...
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...
For efficiency and portability, network packet processing code is typically written in low-level languages and makes use of bit-level operations to compactly represent data. Althou...
In the social reality, objects communicate with each other by means of assuming roles to establish collaboration, and then can adaptively change their roles to obtain other intera...