Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the basis of distributed application frameworks where software components are provided as modular and reusable services. Until today ...
Delayed acknowledgments were introduced to conserve network and host resources. Further reduction of the acknowledgment frequency can be motivated in the same way. However, reduci...
There is a general agreement since Allaz-Vila’s seminal contribution that forward contracts mitigate market power on the spot market. This result is widely quoted and elaborated...
Security and privacy issues for Location-Based Services (LBS) and geolocation-capable applications often revolve around designing a User Interface (UI) such that users are informe...
Software systems are designed and engineered to process data. However, software is data too. The size and variety of today's software artifacts and the multitude of stakehold...