Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual ...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
A novel component-based, service-oriented framework for distributed metacomputing is described. Adopting a provider-centric view of resource sharing, this project emphasizes light...
This position paper takes as outset experience obtained during development of an object-oriented prototype for a global customer service system. The project involved a large shipp...
Requirements engineering is the first stage in the software life-cycle and is concerned with discovering and managing a software system's services, constraints and goals. Req...
Fault tolerance is one of the most important means to avoid service failure in the presence of faults, so to guarantee they will not interrupt the service delivery. Software testi...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelli...