In order to specify the composition of Web services, WSBPEL was defined as an orchestrating language by an international standards consortium. In this paper, we propose a method t...
Abstract. We study strategies that minimize the instability of a faulttolerant consensus system. More precisely, we find the strategy than minimizes the number of output changes ov...
Despite the critical role of software modifiability, it has no universally accepted measurement model. Measuring modifiability in terms of maintenance effort is problematic becaus...
Abstract— Recently we proposed algorithms for concurrent execution on multiple clusters [9]. In this case, data partitioning is done at two levels; first, the data is distribute...
Chen Yu, Dan C. Marinescu, Howard Jay Siegel, John...
Although initially developed as low-threshold tools to publish on-line, weblogs increasingly appear to facilitate conversations. The objective of this study is to identify practic...