The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
—Before designing safety- or mission-critical real-time systems, a specification of the required behavior of the system should be produced and reviewed by domain experts. After ...
During the last 25 years the complexity and functionality of software systems has increased dramatically. Software systems have to be updated and restructured continuously [22]. I...
In this paper, we describe recent work in developing a peer-topeer collaborative environment. The study examines various locking mechanisms/policies by adjusting the granularity o...
Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...