Analytic applications from various industrial sectors have specific attributes and requirements including relatively long processing time, parallelization, multiple interactive in...
L. L. Fong, Catherine H. Crawford, Hidayatullah Sh...
While SOAP/XML is perceived as the appropriate interoperability level for web-services, companies compete to provide workflow-based tools for web-service integration. This paper p...
Inbound call center operations are challenging to manage; there is considerable uncertainty in estimates of arrival rates, and the operation is often subject to strict service lev...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison, Deborah J. M...
The Management of Distributed Applications and Systems (MANDAS) project addresses problems arising in the management of distributed applications. Specifically, we are studying the...
In the past decade outsourcing a software system’s support and maintenance has become relatively common across most organizations. In this paper we consider a few issues governi...