Long transactions cause pragmatic problems for workflow systems – as the transaction is moving, so is the surrounding world. We look at three scenarios in which external events ...
Homeland security measures are increasing the amount of data collected, processed and mined. At the same time, owners of the data raised legitimate concern about their privacy and...
Reconciliating divergent data is an important issue in concurrent engineering, mobile computing and software configuration management. Currently, a lot of synchronizers or merge ...
Discussions about the body of knowledge of information systems, including the research domain, relevant perspectives and methods have been going on for a long time. Many researche...
What is the intended interpretation of a geospatial database in terms of reproducible experiences? How should places on a digital globe be interpreted on the earth surface? And how...