As massive document repositories and knowledge management systems continue to expand, in proprietary environments as well as on the Web, the need for duplicate detection becomes i...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...
The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
Lazy replication is a popular technique for improving the performance and availability of database systems. Although there are concurrency control techniques which guarantee seria...
Data state in a data management system such as a database is the result of the transactions performed on that data management system. Approaches such as single-message transaction...
Shel Finkelstein, Thomas Heinzel, Rainer Brendle, ...