Compared with traditional business operations, wwwbased commerce has many advantages, such as timeliness, worldwide communication, hyper-links, and multimedia. However, lack of cu...
A new fault tolerant architecture that provides tolerance to a broad scope of hardware, software, and communications faults is being developed. This architecture relies on widely ...
There is a sustained trend to embed computer systems in all kinds of intelligent products. Increasing emphasis is given to enhance the functionality of such systems beyond the pro...
Firewalls provide very good network security features. However, classical perimeter firewall deployments suffer from limitations due to complex network topologies and the inabilit...
The implementation of software systems with large numbers of heterogeneous components calls for a powerful design methodology. Although several such methodologies have been propos...