Languages such as Scheme and Smalltalk that provide continuations as first-class data objects present a challenge to efficient implementation. Allocating activation records in a h...
In a recent study, we have shown that in real-time database systems that discard late transactions, optimistic concurrency control outperforms locking. Although the optimistic alg...
Bids during an online auction arrive at unequally-spaced discrete time points. Our goal is to capture the entire continuous price-evolution function by representing it as a functi...
Abstract. Disease processes in patients are temporal in nature and involve uncertainty. It is necessary to gain insight into these processes when aiming at improving the diagnosis,...
The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the e...
Simon Miles, Paul T. Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael ...