We define a new model called O-PRS that extends the Process Rewrite Systems formalism with a new associative operator, “ ”, that allows to model parallel composition while ke...
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...
We present iMapping, a zooming based approach for visually organizing information objects. It was developed on top of semantic desktop technologies and especially targets the supp...
The paper presents the computational model underlying new agent communication languages. The model, called STROBE, has been identified and two prototypical languages inspired by th...
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined operations to the global schema. Such tailoring and com...