Despite a burgeoning demand for parallel programs, the tools available to developers working on shared-memory multicore processors have lagged behind. One reason for this is the l...
Marek Olszewski, Qin Zhao, David Koh, Jason Ansel,...
The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...
The management of policies in large-scale systems is complex because of the potentially large number of policies and administrators, as well as the diverse types of information th...
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Mor...
The academic field of information systems has developed because organizations use a specialized body of knowledge about information and communications systems. Teaching and resear...
Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...