Software developers often encapsulate reusable code as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The co-evolution of applications and APIs may motivate an API migration: the replacement of application dependencies to an original API by dependencies to an alternative API that provides similar functionality and abstractions. In this dissertation, we investigate issues associated with API migrati...

When developing application programming interfaces of ontologies that include many instances of ontology design patterns, developers of semantic web applications usually have to handle complex mappings between descriptions of information given by ontologies and object oriented representations of the same information. In current approaches, annotations on API source code handle these mappings, l...

Translational science research development requires life sciences researchers to update their concept on systems integration and data integration. The RESTful API has proven to be very useful in integrating the massive amount of data and tools. This work presents an approach for biological systems analysis based on the semantic web and RESTful API. The integration of this approach in the BioExt...

This paper describes a role based access control policy template for use by privilege management infrastructures where the roles are stored as X.509 Attribute Certificates in an LDAP directory. There is a brief description of the X.509 privilege management model, and how it can be used to implement RBAC. Policies that conform to the template are written in XML, and the template is specified as ...

This paper presents an extension of a previously-described framework for the specification and manipulation of models of systems. The original framework and its extension include a convenient application programming interface (API), and this paper describes examples of the use of this API in the context of graphical simulation. These examples include the simulation of objects whose definition i...

The default messaging model for the OpenFabrics “Verbs” API is to consume receive buffers in order—regardless of the actual incoming message size—leading to inefficient registered memory usage. For example, many small messages can consume large amounts of registered memory. This paper introduces a new transport protocol in Open MPI implemented using the existing OpenFabrics Verbs API that exhib...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract RFC 1589 describes a UNIX kernel implementation model for high-precision time-keeping. This model is meant for use in conjunction with the Network Time Protocol (NTP, RFC 1305), or similar time synchronization proto...