In a competitive health-care market, hospitals have to focus on ways to streamline their processes in order to deliver high quality care while at the same time reducing costs. To a...
Ronny Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Giorgio Leonardi, S...
The Multitasking Virtual Machine (called from now on simply MVM) is a modification of the Java™ virtual machine. It enables safe, secure, and scalable multitasking. Safety is ac...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
The enormous growth in wireless communications and miniaturized handheld devices in the last few years, have given rise to a vast range of new services, for heterogeneous user env...