We describe SCC-kS, a Speculative Concurrency Control (SCC) algorithm that allows a DBMS to use efficiently the extra computing resources available in the system to increase the l...
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
The need for enterprise application integration projects leads to complex composite applications. For the sake of security and efficiency, consolidated access control policies for ...
Martin Wimmer, Alfons Kemper, Maarten Rits, Volkma...
In this paper we extend dynamic controllability of temporally-flexible plans to temporally-flexible reactive programs. We consider three reactive programming language constructs w...
Robert T. Effinger, Brian C. Williams, Gerard Kell...
The recently proposed saturated adaptive robust controller is integrated with desired trajectory compensation to achieve global stability with9 much improved tracking performance....