Dynamic reconfiguration allows modifying a system during its execution, and can be used to apply patches and updates, to implement adaptive systems, dynamic instrumentation, or to...
With the increasing number of scientific applications manipulating huge amounts of data, effective high-level data management is an increasingly important problem. Unfortunately, ...
Alok N. Choudhary, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Jaechun No,...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
Service-based systems are distributed computing systems with the major advantage of enabling rapid composition of distributed applications, such as collaborative research and deve...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...
: Weak References constitute an elegant mechanism for an application to interact with its garbage collector. In most of its typical uses, weak references are used through weak tabl...