The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
This paper addresses the problem of how to service web requests quickly in order to minimize the client response time. Some of the recent work uses the idea of the Shortest Remain...
Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that gov...
Alexander Lazovik, Marco Aiello, Mike P. Papazoglo...
In this paper we study the soft real-time web cluster architecture needed to support e-commerce and related applications. Our testbed is based on an industry standard, which defin...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
This paper introduces a self-configuring architecture for scaling the database tier of dynamic content web servers. We use a unified approach to load and fault management based ...
Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, ...