Typically, temporal validity of real-time data is maintained by periodic update transactions. In this paper, we examine the problem of period and deadline assignment for these upda...
Wireless sensor networks have attracted attention from a diverse set of researchers, due to the unique combination of distributed, resource and data processing constraints. Howeve...
Aging effects, environmental changes, thermal drifts, and soft and hard faults affect physical systems by changing their nature and behavior over time. To cope with a process evolu...
Many data-management applications require integrating data from a variety of sources, where different sources may refer to the same real-world entity in different ways and some ma...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...