Service-Oriented Architectures are becoming a popular system paradigm in e-learning, and there are several efforts to create community driven service frameworks. In this paper, we...
David E. Millard, Karl Doody, Hugh C. Davis, Leste...
The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a data extension of the mobile telephony standard GSM, is emerging as the first true packet-switched architecture to allow mobile subscrib...
Pervasive societal dependency on large-scale, unbounded network systems, the substantial risks of such dependency, and the growing sophistication of system intruders, have focused...
Richard C. Linger, Nancy R. Mead, Howard F. Lipson
Patching, upgrading, and maintaining operating system software is a growing management complexity problem that can result in unacceptable system downtime. We introduce AutoPod, a ...
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...