Web Services technology enables organisations to exploit software as a service. Services are accessed by method invocations. Method interfaces are described and published, and may...
E-commerce is a rapidly expanding sector all over the world. While this is apparently good news to the world's consumers and business companies, it is creating big challenges...
A tool is described that provides for the automatic configuration of systems from a single description. The tool, newfig, uses two simple concepts to provide its functionality: bo...
File prefetching based on previous file access patterns has been shown to be an effective means of reducing file system latency by implicitly loading caches with files that are li...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...