Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply ...
One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...
Potentially one of the most significant opportunities for enterprise integration is the recent development and advancement of agent based systems. However, before agents can be us...
Elizabeth A. Kendall, Margaret T. Malkoun, Chong H...
Despite the fact that EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) is a widely used technology, research in the area of performance modelling of EJB application servers is quite sparse. This paper...