Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
Constrained path problems have to do with finding paths in graphs subject to constraints. One way of constraining the graph is by enforcing reachability on nodes. For instance, i...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
A given business process may face a large number of regulatory obligations the process may or comply with. Providing tools and techniques through which an evaluation of the complia...