Abstract. Synchronous models are useful for designing real-time embedded systems because they provide timing control and deterministic concurrency. However, the semantics of such m...
As the Web provides rich data embedded in the immense contents inside pages, we witness many ad-hoc efforts for exploiting fine granularity information across Web text, such as We...
WS-* specifications cover a variety of issues ranging from security and reliability to transaction support in web services. However, these specifications do not address web servic...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...
An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...