Current database management system technology is not well equipped to provide adequate support for what has been deemed the 3rd wave of computing -- Ubiquitous Computing. Such app...
The intricacy of real-time data service management increases mainly due to the emergence of applications operating in open and unpredictable environments, increases in software co...
Faceted and dynamic taxonomies are increasingly used nowadays in a plethora of applications. For developing user interfaces grounded on this interaction paradigm, it is advantageo...
Over the years, the notion of transactions has become synonymous with providing fault-tolerance, reliability and robustness to database systems. However, challenges arise when we ...
Many cluster based replication solutions have been proposed providing scalability and fault-tolerance. Many of these solutions perform replica control in a middleware on top of th...