If a business built a plant to produce products without first designing a process to manufacture them, the risk would be lack of capacity without significant plant redesign. Simil...
Dynamic platforms where components can be loaded at runtime can introduce risks to applications stability if components are not previously known before deployment. It may be neede...
Integrating a system of disparate components to form a single application is still a daunting, high risk task, especially for components with heterogeneous communication expectati...
Michelle Hepner, Rose F. Gamble, Manasi Kelkar, Le...
The conversion of a legacy system to a system based on a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) package demands a dedicated guidance. The assumption that it is just a matter of adopting ...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...