The recent emergence of web mash-ups and open source software is driving the development of new practices in software and systems development. In this paper we explore novel pract...
Ingbert R. Floyd, M. Cameron Jones, Dinesh Rathi, ...
Network externalities are the effects on the value of a product that can be ascribed to the presence of a network of users of such product. They play an essential role in the busi...
Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Predonzani, Andrea Valerio,...
Brewer and Kuszmaul [BK94] demonstrated how barriers and traffic interleaving can alleviate the problem of bulk-transfer performance degradation on the Thinking Machines CM-5, by ...
Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier, Armando Fox, Angela...
The Architecture Planning Group (APG) was chartered by IEEE's Software Engineering Standards Committee to set a direction for incorporating architectural thinking into IEEE s...
Walter J. Ellis, Richard F. Hilliard II, Thomas F....
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...