In an e-commerce system, security, in particular authentication, is of paramount importance. Public-key Infrastructure is often used to enforce authentication and the property of ...
A consistency protocol can be termed symmetric if all processors are treated identically when they access common resources. By contrast, asymmetric protocols usually assign a home...
Supply Chain Management (SCM) plans and controls the production over a group of autonomous enterprises. Process-oriented design is used to eliminate inefficiencies of the chain on...
A real-time active database system (RTADBS) has to provide capabilities for timely trigger of timeconstrained transactions and at the same time to process them, concurrently with ...
Considerable progress has been made on automatic hexahedral mesh generation in recent years. Several automatic meshing algorithms have proven to be very reliable on certain classe...