The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture has been proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a scalable solution for providing end-to-end Quality of Service (Qo...
One of the main factors driving object-oriented software development for information systems is the requirement for systems to be tolerant to change. To address this issue in desig...
Florida Estrella, Zsolt Kovacs, Jean-Marie Le Goff...
Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (perso...
Peter Wyckoff, Stephen W. McLaughry, Tobin J. Lehm...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
Abstract New application areas or new technical innovations expect from database management systems more and more new functionality. However, adding functions to the DBMS as an int...