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ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments
A workflow involves the coordinated execution of multiple operations and can be used to capture business processes. Typical workflow management systems are centralised and rigid; t...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Frank Guerin, Wamberto Weber Va...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
160views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
DEXA
2004
Springer
129views Database» more  DEXA 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Using Case Based Retrieval Techniques for Handling Anomalous Situations in Advisory Dialogues
The efficacy of expert systems often depends on the accuracy and completeness of the problem specification negotiated with the user. Therefore, efficient user interfaces are needed...
Marcello L'Abbate, Ingo Frommholz, Ulrich Thiel, E...
AC
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Integrating Group Communication with Transactions for Implementing Persistent Replicated Objects
A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...
Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shrivastava
COMCOM
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
A distributed object platform infrastructure for multimedia applications
Although distributed object computing has developed rapidly over the past decade, and is now becoming commercially important, there remain key application areas inadequately suppo...
Geoff Coulson, Michael Clarke