Nowadays, there are a number of similar web services over the internet or intranet. They provide consumers with more choices according to their personalized QoS requirements. Howe...
Early applications of smart cards have focused in the area of personal security. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for networked, multi-application cards. In this new ...
Ana Azevedo, Arun Kejariwal, Alexander V. Veidenba...
This paper develops and evaluates new share-based scheduling algorithms for differentiated service quality in network services, such as network storage servers. This form of resou...
Dynamic dispatching is a major source of run-time overhead in object-oriented languages, due both to the direct cost of method lookup and to the indirect effect of preventing othe...
Inheritance is a standard means for reuse and for interfacing with external libraries. In a multi-language software product, extending a class written in a statically-typed languag...