The goal of this paper is to bring together the worlds of design and active databases. Design databases have to provide a powerful data model for complex structured design data as ...
A rather recent approach in programming parallel and distributed systems is that of coordination models and languages. Coordination programming enjoys a number of advantages such a...
With the explosive growth and spread of Internet, web access from mobile and rural users has become significant. But these users face problems of low bandwidth and intermittent In...
Process-centered software engineering environments, such as Arcadia, impose a variety of requirements on database technology that to date have not been well supported by available...
We present the notion of a distributed database made up entirely of mobile components. Since disconnections will be frequent in such an environment, we develop a disconnection and...