In this paper, we discuss the major issues associated with the new model of software delivery – service on demand – and explain why it alters the economics of software. As this...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Most applications that are in use today inter-operate with other applications, so-called peers, over a network. The analysis of such distributed applications requires that the effe...
Testing applications in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments needs to deal with issues like the unknown communication partners until the service discovery, the impreci...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...