In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...
Workflows emphasize the partial order of activities, and the flow of data between activities. In contrast, cooperative processes emphasize the sharing of artefact, and its gradual ...
Active and cooperative learning methods represent a paradigm shift in the delivery of engineering education. These techniques recognize that the passive model of the typical colle...
A formal model called CoAuto (Cooperative Automaton) is proposed ibe and analyze cooperative processes. A basic CoAuto abstracts the behaviors of a single active entity. It separat...
Engineeringdesign applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative environments, The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that thepartial ef...