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Application software

About: Application software is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12185 publications have been published within this topic receiving 219822 citations. The topic is also known as: software application & application software.


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01 Jun 2003
TL;DR: Under a realistic economies-of-scale assumption, it is shown that there exists a unique rational expectation equilibrium between the ASP and its potential customers and optimal pricing policies are derived analytically.
Abstract: Ubiquitous and inexpensive access over the World Wide Web has fueled the growth of application service providers (ASPs). ASPs are "service firms that provide a contractual service offering to deploy, host, manage, and lease what is typically packaged application software from a centrally managed facility." The application software products offered by ASPs range from standard productivity tools to expensive applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems like SAP or PeopleSoft. In this paper, we model the economic dynamics between the ASP and its potential customers. Under a realistic economies-of-scale assumption, we show that there exists a unique rational expectation equilibrium. Optimal pricing policies for the ASP are derived analytically and insights are demonstrated through numerical explorations.

59 citations

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TL;DR: Research into Web services research has focused on the user community, resulting in a pragmatic, bottom-up enabling technology that readily facilitates the robust construction of service-oriented systems.
Abstract: Multiagent systems evolved from a need for knowledge-aware, distributed, problem-solving mechanisms. These systems are formally grounded using theoretical approaches, including those that assume mentalistic notions. As a result, much of this research into multiagent systems has provided formal proofs or proof-of-concept demonstrators (such as example systems or prototypes). It has provided only limited, pragmatic support (systems, software, and tools) for the user community. Research into Web services, in contrast, has focused on the user community, resulting in a pragmatic, bottom-up enabling technology that readily facilitates the robust construction of service-oriented systems. Much of the focus of Web services research has been on developing declarative descriptions that application developers can share and that their tools can use to construct and develop large-scale distributed software. Despite these differing approaches, the inherent component-based structure underlying both agents and Web services raises questions about how exactly they differ and whether they can coexist.

59 citations

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TL;DR: A distributed algorithm that implements the abstraction of e-Transaction: a transaction that executes exactly-once despite failures, based on an asynchronous replication scheme that generalizes well-known active-replication and primary-backup schemes.
Abstract: This paper describes a distributed algorithm that implements the abstraction of e-Transaction: a transaction that executes exactly-once despite failures. Our algorithm is based on an asynchronous replication scheme that generalizes well-known active-replication and primary-backup schemes. We devised the algorithm with a three-tier architecture in mind: the end-user interacts with front-end clients (e.g., browsers) that invoke middle-tier application servers (e.g., web servers) to access back-end databases. The algorithm preserves the three-tier nature of the architecture and introduces a very acceptable overhead with respect to unreliable solutions.

59 citations

Patent
Eric Burke1, Viraj Chavan1
19 Oct 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a browser plug-in application provides functionality to allow the creation of a multiple window browser interface environment, allowing users to dynamically view multiple web documents in a side-by-side or tiled fashion in a single instance of the browser application.
Abstract: A browser plug-in application provides functionality to allow the creation of a multiple window browser interface environment. By way of example, when the plug-in is activated, each time a user selects a URL to retrieve a new web document, the plug-in displays a new browser window in addition to the existing browser window within a single instance of the web browser application, as opposed to displaying the new browser window in place of the existing browser window. The plug-in, thus, permits users to dynamically view multiple web documents in a side-by-side or tiled fashion in a single instance of the browser application.

59 citations

Book
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: This book is an unsurpassed introduction to computer hardware, software, and communications technology for construction engineers and managers and provides additional problems, guidelines, and data for the reader to use in implementing his or her own applications on a personal computer.
Abstract: From the Publisher: For people interested in using computers in construction, this book is the perfect starting point - providing an unsurpassed introduction to computer hardware, software, and communications technology. Giving the reader a basic idea of what the pieces do and how they work together, the book's 16 in-depth chapters offer coverage of topics so important for construction engineers and managers. Through the material, readers are given the ability to analyze systematically a potential area of need - such as a function in a department - to determine whether a computer application might help to assess the costs and benefits of alternative proposals and to proceed from that analysis to a clear specification for what the proposed solution should accomplish. There is also coverage of how computer professionals evaluate hardware and design the software and systems that will implement a given application. Furthermore, readers will learn how to manage the people, resources, time, and money required in the development process for creating a given application program or for adapting a package application to the needs specified in the design. Other topics found in the book include: common tools used to develop application software for today's business computers; systems and applications available in the marketplace to perform specific functions, such as estimating, scheduling, cost control, and simulation; emergent technologies and how an individual, group, or company might plan ahead and take advantage of the trends. In addition, the book provides twenty-two construction engineering and management application examples - most developed using modern computer software - and provides additional problems, guidelines, and data for the reader to use in implementing his or her own applications on a personal computer.

58 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202191
2020151
2019237
2018321
2017359
2016364