This paper summarizes the empirical and theoretical research on executive compensation and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of pay practices (and trends in pay practices) for chief executive officers (CEOs). Topics discussed include the level and structure of CEO pay (including

is that they do not fully take the distributed nature of and strong logical dependencies between executed services into account. However, without a comprehensive knowledge of the wider relationships between services, local power management strategies may be ineffectual or can even result in high aggregate energy

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. In such compositions, typically some web services produce results that are used as input for web services that will be subsequently invoked. In the execution schemes currently employed, web services producing intermediate results deliver them to some “coordinating entity”, which arranges the forwarding

We propose a new design for highly concurrent Internet services, whichwe call the staged event-driven architecture (SEDA). SEDA is intended

Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal consortia of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations. In these settings, the discovery, characterization, and monitoring of resources, services, and computations

In an open network computing environment, a workstation cannot be trusted to identify its users correctly to network services. Kerberos provides an alternative approach whereby a trusted third-party authentication service is used to verify users’ identities. This paper gives an overview

Report on a follow-up inspection of

This master’s thesis is based on the software research project JOpera, a process support system with a visual development environment and a flexible runtime platform. Amongst others, JOpera is able to integrate calls to Java applications, Web services, standard UNIX applications and more

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