Large-scale applications require the efficient exchange of data across their distributed components, including data from heterogeneous sources and to widely varying clients. Inher...
The market for software components is growing, driven on the "demand side" by the need for rapid deployment of highly functional products, and on the "supply side&q...
Embedded real-time systems must satisfy not only logical functional requirements but also para-functional properties such as timeliness, Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability. W...
It is common for hotspots in airports, cafes, and malls to deploy info-stations on their access points to provide local information such as flight schedule, multimedia access, sal...
Background: Bioinformatic analyses typically proceed as chains of data-processing tasks. A pipeline, or ‘workflow’, is a well-defined protocol, with a specific structure defin...