Workflow management systems (WfMS) are widely used for improving business processes and providing better quality of services. However, rapid changes in business environment can ca...
In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
Funded as part of the `Network Enabled Platforms' program the Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) Project has developed a network-enabled platform (NEP) consisting of...
Rachel H. Ellaway, Jeremy R. Cooperstock, Bruce Sp...
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system is shared among cores. In a shared DRAM system, requests from a thread can not only delay requests from other threads by cau...