We identify one of the incompatibility problems associated with atomic commit :protocols that prevents them from being used together and weiderive a correctness criterion that cap...
We investigate the problem of how to extend constraint query languages with aggregate operators. We deal with standard relational aggregation, and also with aggregates speci c to ...
In the environment of wide-area networks such as the Internet, distributed query processing becomes problematic due to the changing coming from both underlying networks and user...
Caching is a standard solution to the problem of insufcient bandwidth caused by the rapid increase of information circulation across the Internet. Cache consistency mechanisms are...
Robotic tape libraries (RTLs) currently enjoy a prominent place in the storage market, with a reported average annual growth rate approaching 34%, primarily due to their low cost ...
This paper proposed a novel method to protect logging information more securely. The method, named NIGELOG, produces multiple backups of the logging information, hides them in arb...
Adequate, timely and effective consultation of relevant stakeholders is of paramount importance in the requirements engineering process. However, the thorny issue of making sure t...
With the growing significance of digital libraries and the Internet, more and more electronic texts become accessible to a wide and geographically disperse public. This requires a...
Ulrich Schiel, Ianna M. S. F. de Sousa, Edberto Fe...
Spatiotemporal database management systems can become an enabling technology for important applications such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), environmental information sys...
This paper describes an algebra for use with parallel object databases, and in particular ODMG compliant databases with OQL. Although there have been many proposals for parallel r...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Norman W. Paton, Paul...