Custom House's new currency exchange system is integrated with a legacy system. After a few years of growth, the two systems were so intricately tangled that even small chang...
Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
The long range goal of the “Virtual Design Team” (VDT) research program is to develop computational tools to analyze decision making and communication behavior and thereby to ...
John C. Kunz, Tore R. Christiansen, Geoff P. Cohen...
In this paper, we design and evaluate alternative selection placement strategies for optimizing a very large number of continuous queries in an Internet environment. Two grouping ...
Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton
Existing languages provide good support for typeful programming of standalone programs. In a distributed system, however, there may be interaction between multiple instances of ma...
Peter Sewell, James J. Leifer, Keith Wansbrough, F...