Organisations use Enterprise Service Busses (ESBs) to support enterprise application integration. For a variety of reasons – mergers and acquisitions, geographically distributed enterprise units, distributed governance, scalability – enterprises sometimes need to acquire multiple, disparate ESBs and enable the applications that each one supports to interoperate. However, currently, no standard ...

PURPOSE To assess the shear bond strength to unground human enamel (ESBS) and flexural strength (FS) of different reinforcing fibers used in combination with a flowable composite resin. MATERIALS AND METHODS For ESBS testing, 90 human molars were selected and randomly divided into 9 groups (n = 10) according to the reinforcing fiber to be tested: 1. RTD Quartz Splint additionally impregnated ...

In this paper we consider several variants of the problem of sorting integer permutations with a minimum number of moves, a task with many potential applications ranging from computational biology to logistics. Each problem is formulated as a heuristic search problem, where different variants induce different sets of allowed moves within the search tree. Due to the intrinsic nature of this cate...

Resumen. Los ecosistemas software actuales combinan aplicaciones desarrolladas sobre las más dispares plataformas. Con frecuencia aparece la necesidad de integrar algunas de esas aplicaciones para que puedan trabajar de forma conjunta y producir valor añadido, lo que supone retos tanto desde el punto de vista conceptual como técnico. Los ESBs son herramientas muy utilizadas en este contexto pue...

The Single Frontier Bi-Directional Search (SBS) framework was recently introduced. A node in SBS corresponds to a pair of states, one from each of the frontiers and it uses front-tofront heuristics. In this paper we present an enhanced version of SBS, called eSBS, where pruning and caching techniques are applied, which significantly reduce both time and memory needs of SBS. We then present a hy...

Previous analyses of the relationship between board structure and firm performance have not considered how that relationship is affected by external ownership concentration. This paper illustrates how, as a result of this omission, estimates of the impact of staggered boards on firm performance have been biased downward. Including external ownership concentration also allows for the first time ...

The flexibility offered by an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in enabling various applications to exchange data makes it a very important middleware layer that is responsible for transporting data in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The popularity of the ESB has given rise to a number of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products as well as open source ESBs. In this study, we evaluated three o...

The Wireless and mobile devices, and their applications often run on different platforms, which can make integration problematic. Enterprise-service-bus (ESB) approach and service-orchestration platforms through mobile agents might offer good solutions. However, the centralized ESB introduces serious limitations and the federated ESB architectural pattern conquers those limitations by partition...

Raptors are good sentinels of environmental contamination and there is good capability for raptor biomonitoring in Europe. Raptor biomonitoring can benefit from natural history museums (NHMs), environmental specimen banks (ESBs) and other collections (e.g. specialist raptor specimen collections). Europe's NHMs, ESBs and other collections hold large numbers of raptor specimens and samples, cover...

The enterprise service bus (ESB) acts as the integration and communications platform for connecting service consumers and providers. It is often desirable to have multiple ESB deployments federate with one another to provide a distributed integration platform that promotes the reuse of services within and across enterprises. However, the existing solutions to federate ESBs are limited by their ...