IBM's SMART (Self-Managing And Resource Tuning) project aims to make DB2 selfmanaging, i.e. autonomic, to decrease the total cost of ownership and penetrate new markets. Over...
Although the diversity of platforms for network experimentation is a boon to the development of protocols and distributed systems, it is challenging to exploit its benefits. Impl...
In the modern design environments, different modules, available in existent libraries, may obey different architectural styles and execution models. Reaching a well– behaved com...
With the rapidly falling price of hardware, and increasingly available bandwidth, the storage technology is seeing a paradigm shift from centralized and managed mode to distribute...
—The Internet has become a cost-effective vehicle for software development and release, particular in the free software community. Given the free nature of this software, there a...