For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
Customers are driving down lead times for software, especially for Web applications, to only a few months. While a number of hypertext design models exist, they do not address the...
Gary B. Wills, Noura Abbas, Rakhi Chandrasekharan,...
In some application domains as composite software, ranging from search engines, to more general applications, like cooperative and distributed applications or e-business and e-comm...
Resource management is an important infrastructure in the grid computing environment. Scalability and adaptability are two key challenges in the implementation of such complex sof...
Database systems are a key component behind many of today's computer systems. As a consequence, it is crucial that database systems provide correct and continuous service des...