TCP, perhaps the most widely used transport protocol, was designed for wired links and stationary hosts. But more and more links with different characteristics are used to access...
Xiuchao Wu, I. Biswas, Mun Choon Chan, Akkihebbal ...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Abstract—In distributed environments, access control decisions depend on statements of multiple agents rather than only one central trusted party. However, existing policy langua...
Reflective Relational Machines were introduced by S. Abiteboul, C. Papadimitriou and V. Vianu in 1994, as variations of Turing machines which are suitable for the computation of ...
Flavio Antonio Ferrarotti, Jose Maria Turull Torre...
Parallel implementations of programming languages need to control synchronization overheads. Synchronization is essential for ensuring the correctness of parallel code, yet it add...