With the continuous growth of mobile users and web-based wireless applications, the performance of accessing web services via wireless is becoming one of the key issues. Regular T...
Mobile technology is particularly suited to a fully distributed (replicated) architecture for collaborative work. Users can maintain their own document copies, and can continue to...
Measuring "reuse" and "reusability" is difficult because there are so many different facets to these concepts. Before we can effectively measure reuse and reus...
Full hierarchical dependencies (FHDs) constitute a large class of relational dependencies. A relation exhibits an FHD precisely when it can be decomposed into at least two of its ...
A web service is programmatically available application logic exposed over Internet. With the rapid development of e-commerce over Internet, web services have attracted much atten...
The standard layered drawing convention for trees in which the vertical placement of a node is given by its level in the tree and each node is centered between its children can le...
Package design is concerned with the determining the best way to partition the classes in a system into subsystems. A poor package design can adversely affect the quality of a sof...
In this paper we shall introduce a new electronic payment concept based on the popular direct debit payment model, entitled periodical payments. The direct debit model currently i...
This paper presents new algorithms for computing single source shortest paths (SSSPs) in a nearly acyclic directed graph G. The first part introduces higher-order decomposition. ...