Transaction processing systems are judged by users to be correctly functioning not only if their transactions are executed correctly, but also if most of them are completed within...
Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...
We propose an extension of rewriting techniques to derive inclusion relations a ⊆ b between terms built from monotonic operators. Instead of using only a rewriting relation ⊆ ...
We analyse some recent approaches to the global illumination problem by introducing the corresponding reflection operators, and we demonstrate the advantages of a two-pass method....
We pursue a representation of logic programs as classical first-order sentences. Different semantics for logic programs can then be expressed by the way in which they are wrapped...