The issues surrounding the question of atomicity, both in the past and nowadays, are briefly reviewed, and a picture of an ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) transactio...
Richard Banach, Czeslaw Jeske, Anthony Hall, Susan...
Distributed applications are based on algorithms which should be able to deal with time constraints. It is mandatory to express time constraints in (mathematical) models and the cu...
Context-aware applications monitor changes in their operating environment and switch their behaviour to keep satisfying their requirements. Therefore, they must be equipped with th...
Compliance with privacy legislation is a primary concern for health care institutions that are building information systems support for their business processes. This paper descri...
A value can be understood as a belief that one mode of conduct is preferable to others. The user-interface of computer games mediates all player conduct in the game and is therefo...
Pippin Barr, James Noble, Robert Biddle, Rilla Kha...