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Bluetooth: Specification 0.9 gets the all clear
News The latest specification includes Bluetooth device profiles which define a standard way to discover which Bluetooth services each device can accommodate. Profiles enable this initialisation and subsequent communication, although at present, they...
[May 19, 1999, 13:52]
Specification and Satisfaction of SLAs in Service Oriented Architectures
White Papers This paper presents two essential aspects related to the specification of Quality of Service (QoS) in service oriented architectures. Firstly an overview is presented of the concepts and requirements that a language for the specification of QoS...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Specification-Based Intrusion Detection System for Carrier Ethernet
White Papers The paper analyzes security-wise a layer 2 protocol - the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), part of the Ethernet suite - and presents a solution to detect attacks against this protocol using Specification-based Intrusion Detection.
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Object-Oriented Software Specification in Programming Language Design and Implementation
White Papers An object-oriented formal specification workbench is proposed for defining the syntax and semantics of programming languages, using which the formal properties of different languages can be elaborated and analyzed.
[January 1, 2009, 23:00]
Guidelines for Specification of Data Center Power Density
White Papers Describing data center density using Watts / ft2 or Watts / m2 is not sufficient to determine power or cooling compatibility with high density computing loads like blade serversThis paper describes the science and practical application of an...
[October 1, 2009, 9:29]
The LDAP Standard Specification
White Papers In June 2006, 10 new LDAP RFCs were published (RFCs 4510-4519) to provide a new LDAPv3 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3) specification and to replace RFC 2251 and a number of related specifications.
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification
White Papers This specification describes the structure of executable (image) files and object files under the Windows family of operating systems. These files are referred to as Portable Executable (PE) and Common Object File Format (COFF) files, respectively.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Windows Hardware Error Architecture ACPI Table Specification
White Papers This specification contains details of four Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) tables created for use with the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) feature introduced in the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Service Oriented Architecture to Manage Units of Learning Based on the IMS LD Specification
White Papers Among the current proposals, the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) (IMS Consortium, 2003) specification has emerged as the de facto standard that facilitates the representation of learning designs independently of the chosen pedagogical focus.
[November 24, 2008, 23:00]
Bluetooth: SIG announces Specification - finally
News The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced it will finally ship version 0.9 of the Bluetooth Specification on April 29. The specification is behind schedule as version 1.0 was initially earmarked for an April release.
[April 15, 1999, 16:47]
The Web Services-BusinessActivity - Initiator (WS-BA - I) Protocol: An Extension to the Web Services-BusinessActivity Specification
White Papers The WS-AtomicTransaction specification defines all necessary interfaces to carry out transactional work. In contrary, the WS-BusinessActivity specification for long-running transactions intentionally left the interface between initiator and...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Designing Software Architectures, Part 3: How to Write a Requirements Specification
White Papers Even if one never write a requirements specification, it's important, as a software architect, to know what separates the good ones from the bad. While it isn't usually part of the software architect's job to write a requirements specification, it...
[June 30, 2008, 0:57]
OASIS enlarges specification tent
News Standards body OASIS will take on development of an existing utility computing specification for automating data centre operations. A separate group, called the Data Centre Markup Language Organisation, or DCML.org, has had stewardship of the...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
XML 2: The XML 1.0 specification is here. Does it cut the mustard?
News XML.com wisely suggests that if you want to understand XML, you really have to read the specification for yourself. But as Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification himself once said, most people never get round to reading the basics of how...
[November 10, 1999, 11:01]
TCG publishes draft storage specification
News The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has published a draft specification for storage. The TCG's specification seeks to provide the architecture for implementing security services directly on storage devices and it is being made available to the...
[June 21, 2007, 15:50]
Bluetooth Developers and Implementers Can Succeed With Java Specification Request (JSR) 82
White Papers So predicts C Bala Kumar, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for Motorola's Wireless Software, Application and Services group, and the specification lead for JSR 82 in the Java Community Process (JCP) Program.
[September 15, 2005, 0:00]
Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) Language Specification
White Papers This paper describes the specification language for service level agreements for Web Services, the Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) language. WSLAs are agreements between a service provider and a customer and as such define the obligations of the...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Experimental Comparison of the Comprehensibility of a UML-Based Formal Specification Versus a Textual One
White Papers The primary objective of software specification is to promote understanding of the system properties between stakeholders. Specification comprehensibility is essential particularly during software validation and maintenance as it permits the...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Oasis and UN approve ebXML specification
News A consortium of technology companies and a United Nations organisation have finalized a new e-business Web standard that will provide a variety of businesses with a common way of conducting trades online.
[May 15, 2001, 8:38]
Extended PSS ACPI Method Specification
White Papers The Extended PSS (XPSS) method is an ACPI method that allows platform firmware to generically describe a Model Specific Register (MSR)-based interface for processor performance state controls. This enables the use of the generic processor driver...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
