Ubiquitous web applications (UWA) are required to be customizable, meaning their services need to be adaptable towards the context of use, e.g., user, location, time, and device. ...
Andrea Schauerhuber, Manuel Wimmer, Wieland Schwin...
Modern grids have become very complex by their size and their heterogeneity. It makes the deployment and maintenance of systems a difficult task requiring lots of efforts from ad...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is completing development of TPC-DS, a new generation industry standard decision support benchmark. The TPC-DS benchmark, firs...
The analysis, and eventual approval or rejection, of new enterprise information technology (IT) initiatives often proceeds on the basis of informal estimates of return on investme...