Managing the organizational and software complexity of a comprehensive open source digital library system presents a significant challenge. The challenge becomes even more imposin...
David Bainbridge, Katrina D. Edgar, John R. McPher...
Effective security mechanisms are essential to the widespread deployment of pervasive systems. Much of the research focus on security in pervasive computing has revolved around dis...
Initial deployment and subsequent dynamic reconfiguration of a software system is difficult because of the interplay of many interdependent factors, including cost, time, applicat...
Naveed Arshad, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wol...
Desktop Grids are rapidly gaining popularity as a costeffective computing platform for the execution of applications with extensive computing needs. As opposed to grids and cluste...
Like any other database application object database applications are subject to evolution. Evolution is, however, critical in object databases because it is the very characteristic...