Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources (providers). Providing fast response time is one of the c...
Mehregan Mahdavi, John Shepherd, Boualem Benatalla...
Web Services technology enables organisations to exploit software as a service. Services are accessed by method invocations. Method interfaces are described and published, and may...
Multi-core systems are the current dominant trend in computer processors. However, kernel network layers often do not fully exploit multi-core architectures. This is due to issues...
In this paper, we explore a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts "database as a service" providing its customers seamless mecha...
User-Centered Design is surprisingly difficult. One of the biggest issues, certainly for those with no HCI or usability experience, is a lack of appreciation of how users think an...