This paper initially presents a brief but fairly exhaustive survey of solutions to the concurrency control problem for B-trees. We then propose a new solution, which is characteri...
Abstract. Access control policies are security policies that govern access to resources. Real-time update of access control policies, that is, updating policies while they are in e...
This paper focuses on the problem of improving distributed query throughput of the RDBMS-based data integration system that has to inherit the query execution model of the underly...
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
Successful software maintenance is becoming increasingly critical due to the increasing dependence of our society and economy on software systems. One key problem of software main...