Abstract. In the engineering domain, the development of complex products (e.g., cars) necessitates the coordination of thousands of (sub-)processes. One of the biggest challenges f...
Traditional multiple query optimization methods focus on identifying common subexpressions in sets of relational queries and on constructing their global execution plans. In this p...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...
Concurrency control mechanisms such as turn-taking, locking, serialization, transactional locking mechanism, and operational transformation try to provide data consistency when con...
Amir R. Razavi, Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Paul J. Kra...
Abstract. Personal Information Management (PIM) systems aim to provide convenient access to all data and metadata on a desktop to the user itself as well as the co-workers. Obvious...
Ekaterini Ioannou, Juri Luca De Coi, Arne Wolf Koe...