Abstract. This paper discusses concurrency control in distributed geographical database systems. A geographic data server providing transactional services must be designed to handl...
This paper presents a realization for the reliable and fast startup of distributed systems written in Erlang. The traditional startup provided by the Erlang/OTP library is sequenti...
We present an evaluation of four knowledge base systems with respect to use in large Semantic Web applications. We discuss the performance of each system. In particular, we show t...
Abstract. An important goal of security in information systems is confidentiality. A confidentiality policy specifies which users should be forbidden to acquire what kind of inform...
: The specification of the dynamic behaviour of reactive distributed systems must exhibit the structures of control and has to imply explicitly the relevant aspects of the distribu...