Business processes play a central role in the reorganization of a company and the (re)design of the respective information system(s). Typically the processes are described with the...
Many high-performance tools, applications and infrastructures, such as Paradyn, STAT, TAU, Ganglia, SuperMon, Astrolabe, Borealis, and MRNet, use data aggregation to synthesize lar...
In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
The TCP/IP protocols and Sockets API underlie much of modern computation, but their semantics have historically been very complex and ill-defined. The real standard is the de fact...
Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, ...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...