We present the architecture of nreduce, a distributed virtual machine which uses parallel graph reduction to run programs across a set of computers. It executes code written in a ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Many Internet applications employ multi-tier software architectures. The performance of such multi-tier Internet applications is typically measured by the end-toend response times...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...
— In today’s service market the provisioning of high quality services has become a critical issue for providers as the business success of their customers is often based on the...
Software maintenance and evolution are inevitable activities since almost all software that is useful and successful stimulates user-generated requests for change and improvements...