Browsing Computer Science Technical Reports by Author "Nixon, Patrick"

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    • Building the next generation groupware: A survey of groupware and its impact on the virtual enterprise 

      Terzis, Sotirios; Nixon, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1999-02)
      [Executive Summary] This document explores the issues in building the ?groupware of the future?. The approach is twofold. First we briefly describe our vision of a ?virtual enterprise? that is made up of a set of services ...

    • An Improved Translation of SA/RT Specification Model to High-Level Timed Petri Nets 

      Nixon, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1995-10)
      Structured analysis methods for real-time systems (SA/RT) are widely accepted by the industrial world as a mature approach to real-time systems design. These methods use highly expressive graphical specification languages ...

    • JFS: A Secure Distributed File System for Network Computers 

      O'Connell, Marcus; Nixon, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1999-03)
      Network-centric computing aims to solve the problems associated with traditional client/server systems, namely the high performance requirements, and costly maintenance of, the computing resources. With the network-centric ...

    • A Methodology for the Automated Introduction of Design Patterns 

      O Cinneide, Mel; Nixon, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1999-03)
      In reengineering legacy code it is frequently useful to introduce a design pattern in order to add clarity to the system and thus facilitate further program evolution. We show that this type of transformation can be ...

    • Objects, Components and the Virtual Enterprise 

      Nixon, Patrick; Dobson, Simon (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1999-02)
      We are currently witnessing a convergence of several threads of technology and business imperatives. The idea of a virtual enterprise (VE) ? a business built from both organizationally and geographically distributed units ...

    • Program Restructuring to Introduce Design Patterns 

      O Cinneide, Mel; Nixon, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, Department of Computer Science, 1999-02)
      In restructuring legacy code it may be useful to introduce a design pattern in order to add clarity to the system and thus facilitate further program evolution. We show that aspects of this transformation can be automated ...