Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and upd...
The rapid expansion of Internet based services has created opportunities for ICT firms to collect and use, in an unauthorized way, information about individuals (e.g. customers, pa...
Athanassios N. Yannacopoulos, Costas Lambrinoudaki...
The research vision of the Unified Component Meta Model Framework (UniFrame) is to develop an infrastructure for components that enables a plug and play component environment wher...
Carol C. Burt, Barrett R. Bryant, Rajeev R. Raje, ...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Most web services need to be contracted through service level agreements that typically specify a certain quality of service (QoS) in return for a certain price. We propose a new f...