Abstract. System architectures are described in abstract terms, often using Design Patterns. Actual reuse based on such descriptions requires that each development project derive a...
The general purpose processor has long been the focus of intense optimization efforts that have resulted in an impressive doubling of performance every 18 months. However, recent ...
Christopher T. Weaver, Rajeev Krishna, Lisa Wu, To...
Some of the data available to today’s enterprise applications is inconsistent. This is an inevitable consequence of data being distributed and partially replicated in many locati...
Peter Henderson, Robert John Walters, Stephen Crou...
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
— Modern networks provide a QoS (quality of service) model to go beyond best-effort services, but current QoS models are oriented towards low-level network parameters (e.g., band...