Providing good quality of service (e.g., low response times) in distributed computer systems requires measuring enduser perceptions of performance. Unfortunately, such measures ar...
The correct and ecient management of data in distributed databases or mobile computing environments is dicult. Communication disruptions within such systems render the execution o...
Paul A. Jensen, Monica Brockmeyer, Nandit Soparkar
A real-time object is one whose state may become invalid with the passage of time. A temporal validity interval is associated with the object state, and the real-time object is te...
A real-time active database system (RTADBS) has to provide capabilities for timely trigger of timeconstrained transactions and at the same time to process them, concurrently with ...
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. Efforts are being made in the literature to improve the performance of ROTs without correctness and data currency issues. T...