Solving complex global problems such as illegal immigration, border control, and terrorism requires government organizations at all levels to share not only data but, more importa...
Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Howard W. Beck, Carla...
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
—There exists numerous Grid middleware to develop and execute programs on the computational Grid, but they still require intensive work from their users. BitDew is made to facili...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...