Loose coupling is often quoted as a desirable property of systems architectures. One of the main goals of building systems using Web technologies is to achieve loose coupling. How...
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry
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The demand for a great variety of sophisticated telecommunications services with multimedia characteristics is increasing. This trend highlights the need for the efficient creation...
Dionisis X. Adamopoulos, George Pavlou, Constantin...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...