An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
Object database management systems (ODBMSs) typically offer fixed approaches to evolve the schema of the database and adapt existing instances accordingly. Applications, however, h...
From a software engineering perspective, the Java programming language provides an attractive platform for writing numerically intensive applications. A major drawback hampering i...
Pedro V. Artigas, Manish Gupta, Samuel P. Midkiff,...
There is an increasing trends towards distributed and shared repositories for storing scientific datasets. Developing applications that retrieve and process data from such reposit...
In this paper, we describe an adaptive QOS mapping scheme where the QOS parameters of applications are mapped into resource requirements dynamically, and the resources for the appl...