Component-based software development has proven effective for systems implementation in well-understood application domains, but is still insufficient for the creation of reusable...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...
It is argued that digital libraries of the future will contain terabyte-scale collections of digital text and that full-text searching techniques will be required to operate over c...
Applications communicating over connectionless networks, such as IP, cannot obtain per-connection Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In contrast, the connection-oriented nature ...