Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Component-based reuse is a hopeful solution to the software crisis. Research on software architecture (SA) has revealed a component-based vision of the gross structure of software...
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...
In a distributed environment, the presentation of structured, composite multimedia information poses new challenges in dealing with variable bandwidth (BW) requirements and synchro...
Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...