Many real-time application domains can benefit from flexible and open distributed architectures, such as those defined by the CORBA specification. CORBA is an architecture for...
Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, Sumedh Mungee
This paper presents a formal design for a novel group communication service targeted for WANs. The service provides Virtual Synchrony semantics. Such semantics facilitate the desi...
Managing problem tickets is a key issue in the IT services industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customer on daily basis. The efficie...
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos A...
Enterprises may use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a streamlined interface to their business processes. To scale up the system, each tier in a composite service ...
Very large size Peer-to-Peer systems are often required to implement efficient and scalable services, but usually they can be built only by assembling resources contributed by man...