Flexible workflow systems are needed for processes that need consistency as well as flexibility (e.g., personalized client interactions). A methodology for designing flexible serv...
The responsiveness of networked applications is limited by communications delays, making network distance an important parameter in optimizing the choice of communications peers. S...
— Multi-tier Internet service clusters often contain complex calling dependencies among service components spreading across cluster nodes. Without proper handling, partial failur...
Lingkun Chu, Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Jingyu...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
This paper presents the design of user-level scheduling hierarchies in the Composite component-based system. The motivation for this is centered around the design of a system that...