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...
I/O bottlenecks are already a problem in many largescale applications that manipulate huge datasets. This problem is expected to get worse as applications get larger, and the I/O ...
Murali Vilayannur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T...
Due to the fast growth of internet based electronic business activities, languages for modeling as well as methods for analyzing and executing distributed business processes are be...
This paper considers the problem of performing decentralised coordination of low-power embedded devices (as is required within many environmental sensing and surveillance applicat...
Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Adrian Petcu, N...
A system composed of multiple interacting components is capable of responding to contextual information and producing a higher range of non-linear responses to stimuli compared to...