As in traditional commerce, parties to a contract in ebusiness environments are expected to operate in good faith and comply with mutually agreed terms of contract. It may be the ...
The Object Management Group (OMG) is pursuing its new Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) strategy. The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is an important technology to support the MDA, both ...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
We present NeST, a flexible software-only storage appliance designed to meet the storage needs of the Grid. NeST has three key features that make it well-suited for deployment in...
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Nick LeRo...
Performance models provide significant insight into the performance relationships between an application and the system used for execution. The major obstacle to developing perfor...
Valerie E. Taylor, Xingfu Wu, Jonathan Geisler, Ri...