Designing web sites that are responsive to customer needs is a critical prerequisite for the success of online services. Recently, a usability evaluation procedure, based on the M...
Anne P. Massey, Vijay Khatri, Mitzi M. Montoya-Wei...
In this paper, we study and model a crash-recovery target and its failure detector’s probabilistic behavior. We extend Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to measure the recovery d...
—The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capabil...
Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, Kenneth Chiu, Ric...
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
Abstract. We propose Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to formalise the development and reconfiguration of software architectures based on term-rewriting. An archi...
Roberto Bruni, Alberto Lluch-Lafuente, Ugo Montana...