Software-based active replication is expensive in terms of performance overhead. Multithreading can help improve performance; however, thread scheduling is a source of nondetermin...
Claudio Basile, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K...
The idea of component based software systems has a long tradition in the field of software engineering. Component markets have been an integral part of this idea. However, such ma...
This paper employs the analysis of an interpretive case study within a Regional Train Operating Company (RTOC) to arrive at theoretical understandings of Information Systems (IS)....
A growing part of population is used to performing transactions on-line via the Internet, even in relationships to authorities. Not even the health care sector can escape this tre...
The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...