On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems constitute the kernel of the information systems used today to support the daily operations of most organizations. Although these sys...
The XML technologies have brought a lot of new ideas and abilities in the field of information management systems. Nowadays, XML is used almost everywhere: from small configurati...
With the development and maturity of ServiceOriented Architectures (SOA) to support business-tobusiness transactions, organizations are implementing Web services to expose their p...
Commodity symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), though originally intended for transaction processing, because of their availability, are now used for numerical analysis applications ...
Many authorities have started to use web sites to provide services based on transactions. The guiding vision is often a process portal for citizens that provides access to the cou...