One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
This paper describes concepts and features of a Web-based system called XRL/flower for carrying out Petri-net based workflows described with XRL (eXchangeable Routing Language). XR...
Many would argue that future breakthroughs in software productivity will dependon our ability to combine existing pieces of software to produce new applications. An important step...
During grouping tasks for data exploration and sense-making, the criteria are normally not well-defined. When users are bringing together data objects thought to be similar in som...
Xiaohua Sun, Patrick Chiu, Jeffrey Huang, Maribeth...
This paper proposes STORAGEDB: a paradigm for implementing storage virtualation using databases. It describes details for storing the logical-to-physical mapping information as ta...
Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, ...