Current cluster architectures provide the ideal environment to run federations of main-memory database systems (FMMDBs). In FMMDBs, data resides in the main memory of the federati...
One characteristic of the next generation wireless mobile environments is a high level of interoperability between mobile applications and services. This imposes significant dema...
Time-critical scheduling in real-time database systems has two components: real-time transaction scheduling,which is related to task scheduling in realtime operating systems, and ...
The concepts of bipolar queries and queries with preferences are studied. Various interpretations of the former, recently defined by Dubois and Prade, are discussed. The latter w...
This paper introduces the concept of an SOA edge server and a set of complementary design patterns designed to optimize performance, improve manageability and enable customers to ...