The role of data warehouse for business analytics cannot be undermined for any enterprise, irrespective of its size. But the growing dependence on web services has resulted in a situation where the enterprise data is managed by multiple, autonomous service providers. The goal of our work is to investigate and devise an approach to address the trade-off between scalability and adaptability in la...

We describe a microfluidic approach to optimize crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and their solid forms (cocrystals) via crystal seeding. Subsequent on-chip X-ray diffraction is used to verify the crystal from. The microfluidic platform comprises an 8 × 9 well array that enables screening of seeding conditions (dilutions) by metering of API solution or API/cocrystal fo...

The file-system API of contemporary systems makes programs vulnerable to TOCTTOU (time of check to time of use) race conditions. Existing solutions either help users to detect these problems (by pinpointing their locations in the code), or prevent the problem altogether (by modifying the kernel or its API). The latter alternative is not prevalent, and the former is just the first step: programm...

Context: Modeling tools are traditionally delivered as monolithic desktop applications, optionally extended by plug-ins or special purpose central servers. This delivery model suffers from several drawbacks, ranging from poor scalability to difficult maintenance and the proliferation of “shelfware”. Objective: In this paper we investigate the conceptual and technical feasibility of a new softwa...

The fifth generation (5G) system architecture is defined as service-based and the core network functions are described as sets of services accessible through application programming interfaces (API). One of the components of 5G is Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) which provides the open access to radio network functions through API. Using the mobile edge API third party analytics applications ...

During the past years, the data deluge that prevails in the World Wide Web has been accompanied by a number of APIs that expose business logic. In this paper, we discuss a novel approach to enrich existing API standards definitions with business rules. Taking advantage of the REST principles, we aim at enabling the creation of generic clients that can dynamically navigate through semantically e...