Industry standards for Web Service composition, such as WSBPEL, provide the notation and additional control mechanisms for the execution of business processes in Web Service colla...
Data-shipping systems that allow inter-transaction caching raise the need of a transactional cache consistency maintenance (CCM) protocol because each client is able to cache a po...
Linearizability is a key design methodology for reasoning about tations of concurrent abstract data types in both shared memory and message passing systems. It provides the illusi...
Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We build on this work by addressing substitutability of subtypes as well as i...
The current evolution of Information Technology leads to the increase of automatic data processing over multiple information systems. The data we deal with concerns sensitive infor...