COTS components, like software libraries, can be used to reduce the development effort. Unfortunately, many COTS components have been developed without a focus on robustness and s...
Top-k queries based on ranking elements of multidimensional datasets are a fundamental building block for many kinds of information discovery. The best known general-purpose algor...
Event-based programming has been highly touted in recent years as the best way to write highly concurrent applications. Having worked on several of these systems, we now believe t...
J. Robert von Behren, Jeremy Condit, Eric A. Brewe...
Transaction Logic is a logic for representing declarative and procedural knowledge in logic programming, databases, and AI. It has been successful in areas as diverse as workflows...
Web transactions may be complex, composed of several sub-transactions accessing different resources including legacy systems. They may also have complex semantics. To deal with co...