Most software-intensive systems rely on a componentbased design and are therefore made up of encapsulated structural units which are hierarchically composed of one another. In thi...
Follow The Sun (FTS) is a special case of global software development. FTS means that software work is handed off every day from one development site to the next -- many time zone...
Both the academia and practice recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate benefits. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of methodological devel...
The rapid growth of the Internet has made computer-mediated communication popular and the use of e-negotiation systems (ENS) has attracted great attention from researchers and pra...
Web services have emerged as a de facto standard for encapsulating services within or across organization boundaries. Various proposals have been made to compose Web services into...
The mechanisms and design principles needed for achieving optimized handoff for mobile Internet services are poorly understood and need better analysis. This paper contributes to ...
In this research, we use a game-theoretic model to examine personalization of information in a twodimensional product differentiation model, when consumers attach importance to ‘...
In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speciï...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...