We concentrate on the property that the progression of collaborative work involves communication among participants, and we consider a flexible method for managing transactions ut...
: The Web Services architecture defines various specifications that applications may wish to use in combination. In this paper, we investigate the composition of the Web services s...
A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...
: In a decentralised system the problems of fault tolerance, and in particular error recovery, vary greatly depending on the design assumptions. For example, in a distributed datab...
Ontology-based data access is a powerful form of extending database technology, where a classical extensional database (EDB) is enhanced by an ontology that generates new intensio...