Blockchain is currently a core technology for developing new types of decentralized applications. With the unique properties blockchain, challenges and characteristics are introduced to system. Among these characteristics, infrastructure costs benefits system critical evaluate feasibility any have yet be addressed in current literature. This work presents framework evaluating blockchain applica...

Electric infrastructures have been pushed forward to handle tasks they were not originally designed perform. To improve reliability and efficiency, state-of-the-art power grids include improved security, reduced peak loads, increased integration of renewable sources, lower operational costs. In this framework, “smart grids” are built around bidirectional communication technologies, where meters...

Infrastructure software comprises code libraries or runtime processes that support the development or operation of application software. A particular infrastructure system may support certain styles of application, and may even determine the features of applications built using it. This poses a challenge: although we have good techniques for designing and evaluating interactive applications, ou...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the commercial deployment of NLP technologies. This paper presents SiSSA, a project whose main aim is that of developing an infrastructure for prototyping, editing and validation of NLP application architectures. The system will provide the user with a graphical environment for (1) selecting the NLP activities relevant for the particular NLP ...

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA, [email protected], http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/ ̃ yguo 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA, [email protected], http://www.cs.utk.edu/ p̃arker 3 Computational Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA, and...

With the growth of the World Wide Web (WWW), many people nowadays spend a lot of time performing various tasks with browsers, most of these tasks repetitive and tedious. Many applications are created to reorganize and simplify the usage of Web resources, which are called Web automation applications. This paper proposes an infrastructure to create Web automation applications, the WIS (Web Integr...

Remote access feels different from local access. The major issues are consistency (machines vary in GUIs, applications, and devices) and responsiveness (the user must wait for network and server delays). Protium attacks these by partitioning programs into local viewers that connect to remote services using application-specific protocols. Partitioning allows viewers to be customized to adapt to ...