Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...
The data stream model has recently attracted attention for its applicability to numerous types of data, including telephone records, web documents and clickstreams. For analysis o...
This contribution presents a model for process improvement in the area of performance engineering, which is called performance engineering maturity model. The use of this model al...
Combining eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and Active Layer Networking may yield strong benefits for networked services. A Wide range of new Multimedia applications can be develope...
Most approaches to real-time collaboration and awareness involve the use of special applications to connect users to each other either peer-to-peer or via a central server. At Lot...