The ever growing size and complexity of both technical and business systems requires efficient software engineering approaches to keep development cost under control while still ...
Abstract. The challenge of building consistent, available, and scalable data management systems capable of serving petabytes of data for millions of users has confronted the data m...
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Shyam Antony, Su...
Abstract—Relational database management systems are general in the sense that they can handle arbitrary schemas, queries, and modifications; this generality is implemented using...
State-of-the-art middleware and component technologies lack support for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Application developers, therefore, integrate QoS mechanisms into the a...
In traditional commerce, brokers act as middlemen between customers and providers, aggregating, repackaging and adding value to products, services or information. In the broadest ...