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SAC
1999
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Transaction Processing in PRO-MOTION
To provide data consistency in the presence of failures and concurrency, database methods will continue to be important to the processing of shared information in a mobile computi...
Gary D. Walborn, Panos K. Chrysanthis
MM
1997
ACM
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Flavor: A Language for Media Representation
We present the design and implementation of a new programming language for media-intensive applications called Flavor (Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation). It ...
Alexandros Eleftheriadis
ECOOP
1997
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Subtyping Is Not a Good "Match" for Object-Oriented Languages
We present the design and rationale of a new statically-typed object-oriented language, LOOM. LOOM retains most of the features of the earlier language PolyTOIL. However the subtyp...
Kim B. Bruce, Leaf Petersen, Adrian Fiech
MM
1993
ACM
176views Multimedia» more  MM 1993»
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A Digital On-Demand Video Service Supporting Content-Based Queries
Abstract–Video-on-demand represents a key demonstrative application for enabling multimedia technology in communication, database, and interface research. This application requir...
Thomas D. C. Little, Gulrukh Ahanger, R. J. Folz, ...
SC
1992
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Heterogeneous Parallel Programming in Jade
This paper presents Jade, a high-level parallel programming language for managing coarse-grain concurrency. Jade simplifies programming by providing the programmer with the abstra...
Martin C. Rinard, Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam