or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
In this paper, we propose an approach that provides the benefits of isolation in service-oriented applications where it is not feasible to use the traditional locking mechanisms u...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Multi-field packet classification is a key enabling function of a variety of network applications, such as firewall processing, Quality of Service differentiation, traffic billing...
Abstract. Predicting the performance of component-based applications is difficult due to the complexity of the underlying component technology. This problem is exacerbated when a m...