When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise such as, how and where computing resources are distributed, a...
Business processes play a central role in the reorganization of a company and the (re)design of the respective information system(s). Typically the processes are described with the...
The Linux cluster considered in this paper, formed from shuttle box XPC nodes with 2 GHz Athlon processors connected by dual Gb Ethernet switches, is relatively easily constructed...
David J. Johnston, Martin Fleury, Michael Lincoln,...
Although peripheral devices come out at a frantic pace and require fast releases of drivers, little progress has been made to improve the development of drivers. Too often, this d...
Background: Software tools that model and simulate the dynamics of biological processes and systems are becoming increasingly important. Some of these tools offer sophisticated gr...