Web communities involve networks of loosely coupled data sources. Members in those communities should be able to pose queries and gather results from all data sources in the networ...
We present SECONDO, a new generic environment supporting the implementation of database systems for a wide range of data models and query languages. On the one hand, this framewor...
Providing efficient access to XML documents becomes crucial in XML database systems. More and more concurrency control protocols for XML database systems were proposed in the past...
Persistent stores support uniform management of data objects regardless of their lifetimes and locations. Such stores typically maintain a self-consistent state even after failure...
Frans A. Henskens, D. M. Koch, Rasool Jalili, John...
1 Collaboration technologies often provide benefits to teams working together to achieve a common goal. Such technologies may be abandoned, however, if users are dissatisfied with...
Bruce A. Reinig, Robert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vre...