: In modern organisations the monolithic information systems of the past are being gradually replaced by networked systems, enabling distributed computing often based on multi-agen...
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Tracking heart motion plays an essential role in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. As such, accurate characterization of dynamic behavior of the left ventricle (LV) is esse...
Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Ismail Ben Ayed, Ali Isl...
In most of the existing approaches to the design of multiagent systems, there is no clear way in which to relate organisational and normative structures to the model of the enviro...
In this paper, we describe recent work in developing a peer-topeer collaborative environment. The study examines various locking mechanisms/policies by adjusting the granularity o...