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KBSE
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Testing Database Transaction Concurrency
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Zhongqiang Chen
KBSE
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Feature Signatures of Evolving Programs
As programs evolve, their code increasingly becomes tangled by programmers and requirements. This mosaic quality complicates program comprehension and maintenance. Many of these a...
Daniel R. Licata, Christopher D. Harris, Shriram K...
ADAEUROPE
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Round Robin Scheduling Policy for Ada
Abstract. Although Ada defines a number of mechanisms for specifying scheduling policies, only one, Fifo Within Priorities is guaranteed to be supported by all implementations of ...
Alan Burns, Michael González Harbour, Andy ...
FOSSACS
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
High-Level Petri Nets as Type Theories in the Join Calculus
Abstract. We study the expressiveness of the join calculus by comparison with (generalised, coloured) Petri nets and using tools from type theory. More precisely, we consider four ...
Maria Grazia Buscemi, Vladimiro Sassone
GI
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Challenges
: As mobile and embedded computing devices become more pervasive, it is becoming obvious that the nature of interactions between users and computers must evolve. Applications need ...
Karen Henricksen, Jadwiga Indulska, Andry Rakotoni...