One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
This paper describes a design that addresses limitations inherent in the initial implementation of the Archive for the Earth Observing Systems (EOS). The design consists of two el...
Chip-multiprocessors are quickly becoming popular in embedded systems. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded appli...
Njuguna Njoroge, Jared Casper, Sewook Wee, Yuriy T...
The maindi culty in enforcing globalserializabilityin a multidatabase environment lies in resolving indirect (transitive) con icts between multidatabase transactions. Indirect con...
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit...
Due to a rapid advancement in the electronic commerce technology, the use of credit cards has dramatically increased. As credit card becomes the most popular mode of payment for bo...