—This paper describes algorithms for implementing a high-level programming model for synchronous distributed groupware applications. In this model, several application data objec...
Robert E. Strom, Guruduth Banavar, Kevan Miller, A...
In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
Negotiation is a technique for reaching mutually beneficial agreement among autonomous entities. A concurrent negotiation problem occurs when one entity is negotiating simultaneous...
We study an approach for performing concurrent activities in Markov decision processes (MDPs) based on the coarticulation framework. We assume that the agent has multiple degrees ...