Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modu...
Middleware for web service orchestration, such as runtime engines for executing business processes, workflows, or web service compositions, can easily become performance bottleneck...
We have implemented a prototype distributed system for managing and accessing a digital library of geospatial imagery over a wide-area network. The system conforms to a subset of ...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, K. E. Kerry...
—Multimedia applications are often characterised by implicit temporal constraints but, in many cases, they are not programmed using any specialised real-time API. These “Legacy...
Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni, Luigi Palopoli, Fab...
Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, hosted applications and databases can be update-intensive and must rem...