Abstract. Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic In...
Data partitioning is often used to scale-up a database system. In a centralized database system, the serialization order of commited update transactions can be inferred from the d...
Abstract. For time-constrained applications, repair-server-based active local recovery approaches can be valuable in providing low-latency reliable multicast service. However, an a...
We present an active switch architecture to improve the performance of systems connected via system area networks. Our programmable active switches not only flexibly route packets...
Co-ordination is seen as a fundamental aspect of organisational activity where computers can help. This is motivated by the need to reconcile the conflicts that arise from the div...