Many types of applications can benefit from flexible and open middleware. CORBA is an emerging middleware standard for Object Request Brokers (ORBs) that simplifies the developmen...
Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, Chris Clevela...
Planning for the optimal attainment of requirements is an important early lifecycle activity. However, such planning is difficult when dealing with competing requirements, limited...
Abstract During the selection of commercial off-theshelf (COTS) products, mismatches encountered between stakeholders' requirements and features offered by COTS products are i...
—Large scale systems (LSS) contain multiple subsystems that interact across multiple nodes in sometimes unforeseen and complicated ways. As a result, pinpointing the subsystems t...
Online auction systems have made remarkable progress in recent years. However, one of the most severe and persistent problems in such systems is shilling behavior, which is a type ...